bromide

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

> > > Did you have to take any Bromoil Seltzer?
> > >
> > > Best Wishes,
> > > Mark Nelson
> > Nope, but I DID have the wonderful benefit of having a
> > physician chemist in the class (he practices occupational
> > hazard medicine or some such thing) and he regaled us with
> > everything photographic as it relates to hazards.
> > Apparently, potassium bromide that we use in bromoil is
> > none other than that used to "calm nerves" down back in the
> > day!  I shoulda drank it.
that may be where "bromide" meaning stock saying or conventional "wisdom" 
comes from...

J.