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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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It's commonly believed that the psychedelic drug LSD was first synthesized by the chemist Albert Hofmann in 1938. However, we can confirm that LSD was first "cooked up" by one Mrs. Threadneedle in 1847. The acronym LSD has nothing to do with her chemical compound but rather the cost of her "soothing syrup." (L.s.d. stands for the old British monetary values of "pounds, shililngs, pence," from the Latin "librae, solidi, denarii.")
From Punch, 1847. Mrs. Threadneedle is saying, "Did it have a nasty panic? Here then —here then!!!"
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