] I can vouch for the continued usage of "phlogiston" even today: my French-Canadian in-laws, in northern Quebec, refer to rubbing creams like Ben-Gay as "anti-phlogistine" .

] Now, mind you, my mother-in-law still insists that we shut the windows during thunderstorms so that the lightning doesn't get in. They're not exactly what we'd consider "scientifically advanced."

Thank you! There's an interesting difference between those two beliefs. Thinking that lightning might get in is pre-scientific. Referring to phlogiston is scientific, but referring to an old and wrong scientific paradigm.

You wouldn't happen to be able to post a label or something that uses the word phlogiston, would you?

] And they still play that archaic card game, euchre...

LOL! and that's just personal taste.