This is the stuff that the winner of the 1904 Marathon used. It's considered an early "doping" method. Thomas Hicks would have been much better off if he hadn't taken it.
Below is an ad I stumbled upon while looking for photographs of old bicycles. I can't imagine what it must have been like for ladies to exercise wearing any kind of corset!


Lovely, young woman. You’ll see her and
ReplyDeleteall of those who loved God first Upstairs:
Being a ‘Near Death Experiencer’
(saw OtherSide when comatose),
gotta lotta vivid thots/ideez now:
How wouldya like to write centillions
at my Big Ol Majestic Mansions, too?
Everything’s possible in the starry sky.
God wants from U.S. to dream/desire:
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Cya soon, ya gorgeous wildflower you...