http://www.metafilter.com/tags/jakeleg Posts tagged with 'jakeleg' at MetaFilter. Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:33:51 -0800 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:33:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/66031/I%2Dcant%2Deat%2DI%2Dcant%2Dtalk%2DBeen%2Ddrinkin%2Dmean%2Djake%2DLord%2Dnow%2Dcant%2Dwalk%2DAint%2Dgot%2Dnothin%2Dnow%2Dto%2Dlose%2DCause%2DIm%2Da%2Djake%2Dwalkin%2Dpapa%2Dwith%2Dthe%2Djake%2Dwalk%2Dblues%2DJake%2DWalk%2DBlues%2DThe%2DAllen%2DBro mp3s:<br><a href="http://www.juneberry78s.com.nyud.net/erbfiddlers/Mississippi%20Sheiks%20-%20Jake%20Leg%20Blues.mp3" title="">Jake Leg Blues</a> - <a href="http://www.oafb.net/onceblu15.html" title="Our image of country blues performers during the 1920s and 1930s often consists of a single man, alone at the crossroads or in a juke. However, some of the music was made by small, flexible combos. Among the most famous was The Mississippi Sheiks.">Mississippi Sheiks</a><br><a href="http://www.juneberry78s.com.nyud.net/sounds/j15019-04.mp3" title="">Jake Walk Blues</a> - <a href="http://alterdestiny.blogspot.com/2006/08/unsung-giants-of-modern-music-ii-allen.html">The Allen Brothers</a><br> <a href="http://www.document-records.com.nyud.net/mp3/13207.mp3" title="'Drinking so much of Jake, till it done give me the limber leg..'">Alcohol and Jake Blues</a> - <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/57020/The-Falsettos-Skip-James-Tommy-Johnson-Dona-Dumitru-Siminica-amp-Joe-Keawe-among-others#1523471" title="Although less well-known than Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson was a highly influential artist in the Delta Blues movement in the 20's and 30's. In fact, Robert Johnson was particularly taken by and influenced by Tommy's shows. His influence on Robert Johnson and his fame in the Delta were only surpassed by Son House and Charley Patton...">Tommy Johnson</a> (<a href="http://www.harptab.com/lyrics/ly5155.shtml" title="Woke up this morning, alcohol was on my mind, I got them alcohol blues and I can't rest easy here...">lyrics</a>)<br>Articles:<br><a href="http://www.knoxandbaum.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/jakeleg.pdf" title="Annals of Epidemiology: ">"Jake Leg," about how the blues diagnosed a mysterious 1930 epidemic</a> is a pdf scan of a New Yorker article from September 15, 2003 from <a href="http://www.knoxandbaum.com/id1.html" title="Knox and Baum articles">here</a>. &#0160;<a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/moonshine/drink/jake.html" title="In the 1930s, though, a specific affliction struck moonshine drinkers in a number of Southern states. It is estimated that some 50,000 people were crippled with partial paralysis, mostly in their legs, as a result of drinking 'jake'. In some cases the paralysis proved to be temporary, but nearly all victims were forced to walk with in high-stepping, foot-slapping style that quickly became known as the 'jake walk' or the 'jake leg'.">The Jake Walk Effect </a> is from <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/moonshine/about/index.html" title="This site concentrates on North Carolina and the surrounding states during the first thirty years of the 20th century. By using a range of sound, video, photographs and text, we hope to show that the process of making, selling and drinking moonshine has been a part of daily life for some people for many years.">North Carolina Moonshine</a>, as is <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/moonshine/drink/jakesongs.html" title="Below are the 13 known titles, artists, and dates of recording of songs that reflect the presence or impact of the jake leg effect.">The Jake Leg in Song </a> &#0160;See also <a href="http://www.fohbc.com/PDF_Files/JakeWalkStory_CMunsey.pdf" title="(The 'Jake Walk' Story)">Paralysis In A Bottle</a> (<a href="http://72.14.253.104/custom?q=cache:1hrItglubg0J:www.fohbc.com/PDF_Files/JakeWalkStory_CMunsey.pdf+%22PARALYSIS+IN+A+BOTTLE%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us" title="Jake was the alcoholic 'essence' of Jamaica ginger, extracted from the pulverized root and closely resembled the standard pharmaceutical preparation 'Tincture of Ginger' described in the United States Pharmacopoeia (U.S.P.). It was one of several thousand dubious but generally harmless patent (proprietary) medicines that Americans had been relying on for over a century.">html</a>) See also <a href="http://www.em-news.com/pt/re/emmednews/fulltext.00132981-200410000-00045.htm;jsessionid=HYZKncT0DhrFDgngv91D2YDvpFLrvFkzDVy0LnsgfQf7NmCl4MGs!1899110359!181195628!8091!-1" title="Jake was the popular street term for Jamaica ginger extract, a patent medicine that had been consumed since the 1860s without causing any problem except intoxication... Jake was sold in two-ounce bottles for about 50 cents each. Because the preparation contained as much as 80% ethanol by weight, each bottle had an alcohol content equivalent to four shots of whiskey.">The Jake Walk and Limber Trouble: A Toxicology Epidemic</a> See also <a href="http://members.aol.com/emilyafriedman/columns/2007-08-happy-tails.html" title="In 1930, a couple of Boston chemists-turned-bootleggers, Harry Gross and Max Reisman, hit upon the perfect adulterant: triorthocresyl phosphate (TOCP). An odorless, colorless, tasteless industrial chemical, it fit the bill precisely... 50,000 and 100,000 Americans, mostly low-income white and African-American men, drank enough of the bad Jake to develop partial paralysis...'">Happy Tails, Jake Leg, and the Food and Drug Administration</a> Also, there is <a href="http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/morgan1.html" title="...Using the 1930 episode of poisoning with triorthocresylphosphate (TOCP)-contaminated alcohol and the 1990's fentanylisomer substitution for heroin, the character of prohibition and its toxic consequences can be illuminated.">Poisons and Prohibitions: The Persistence of Folly</a> And then there is <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec2381/005.htm" title="Like the nutritional disease pellagra discussed in the last lecture, in the United States ginger jake paralysis is a disease of the past. This paralysis, also nicknamed jake leg, is the common type of organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy (OPIDN). It is characterized by muscular weakness, unsteady gait, ataxia, and flaccid paralysis of the limbs, particularly the legs.">Three Case Studies for the Epimediological Side of Toxicology: 1. Jamaica Ginger...</a> See also <a href="http://content.herbalgram.org/wholefoodsmarket/herbalgram/articleview.asp?a=958&p=Y" title="My song has grown monotonous, but one more thing I'd say - For all you jake leggers I will always pray - I had the jake leg too, I had the jake leg too.">Lyrics Spawned from Jake Leg.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66031 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:33:51 -0800 blues ginger jake jakeleg jakewalk jamaica jamaicagingerextract music prohibition toxicology y2karl