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Nice! They really loved tobacco and ascribed it all kinds of curative powers. I have an ancestor (lived 1830–98) who was asthmatic & apparently for this the cure was blowing tobacco smoke down his lungs 
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Alhazred posted:Piercing the heart with a long needle with a flag at the end, which would wave if the heart were still beating. "Yup, he's dead now."
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Nicotine is a stimulant, isn't it? I suspect that the tobacco smoke up the bunghole trick worked once for something and somehow just caught on.Krankenstyle posted:Nice! They really loved tobacco and ascribed it all kinds of curative powers. I have an ancestor (lived 1830–98) who was asthmatic & apparently for this the cure was blowing tobacco smoke down his lungs Is this how he died?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Ignatz Semmelweis, the guy who suggested that maybe washing your hands between dissecting cadavers and helping deliver babies might be the key to cutting down on the number of mothers dying in childbirth was shamed out of the medical profession for daring to suggest that a doctor's hands might be dirty He also had a mental breakdown and spent the rest of his life in an insane asylum because nobody believed him. E: if you haven’t yet, go watch The Knick. It’s a fictional, stylized version of early 1900’s medicine in NYC and it’s loving great. Cacafuego has a new favorite as of 18:06 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Nicotine is a stimulant, isn't it? I suspect that the tobacco smoke up the bunghole trick worked once for something and somehow just caught on. Don't know, the burial record doesn't say & there doesn't appear to be a doctor's death certificate. I don't think they bothered with those if the death could be attributed to "old age". Family history says he was bedridden in his last years. e: Looking through military rolls, he was apparently considered fit for service on a navy ship in 1852 (age 22) but is noted to have a "weakly countenance" in 1862 and in 1864 (age 34) he is struck from the rolls as brystsyg (chest-ill) Note that brystsyg was a very general term, also used for tuberculosis, pneumonia, etc. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 18:34 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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Cacafuego posted:He also had a mental breakdown and spent the rest of his life in an insane asylum because nobody believed him. Discworld has a running joke about how no one in Ankh-Morpork trusts a doctor to accomplish anything but make death more elaborate and expensive besides the horse doctor who has to actually get results, and a competent doctor trained in the Middle East equivalent is considered a laughable quack, and if anything it's nowhere near insane enough.
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Zopotantor posted:You can build ships out of concrete. There's an old one beached at Aptos (near Santa Cruz), CA. And in my experience, it's almost a legal requirement that they be named with some kind of concrete-based pun - I know of one called 'Maid of Crete' and another called Cretegaff. Concrete shipbuilders have a ponderous sense of humour.
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Pookah posted:Concrete shipbuilders have a ponderous sense of humour. Much like the ships they build.
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chitoryu12 posted:I think that’s actually where the phrase “blowing smoke up my rear end” came from, when people began doubting that it really worked. It was so accepted as a drowning treatment that many boats carried kits for it. The belief was real, but it's not the original of the phrase. The phrase only goes back to WW2.
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Going through old medical literature is great. I remember one article that started like this "For the first time, surgeons have successfully transplanted a heart from one tadpole to another. The animal is recovering well, and seeing good functionality in both hearts
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Much like the ships they build. much like youre posting
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Pretend I posted that tweet about being an old time doctor, just drunk as hell like yeah you got ghosts in your blood, u should do cocaine about it Semmelweis was not entirely rigorous with his science, bad at communication, and kind of a jerk. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 22:07 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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Adorable. I hope she got home okay on the sick golihis. 
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Rollersnake posted:Adorable. I hope she got home okay on the sick golihis. soldier
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Translation for brokebrains that can't read cursive?
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Queen_Combat posted:Translation for brokebrains that can't read cursive? My attempt: My cat, I had her four months in the army. She was not afraid of horses, guns or any noise. Used(?) to be with me on [?????] purred(?) herself to [?????] my arm. I sent her home by a sick(?) ???
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Kennel posted:My attempt: Went to be with me on [Proper Noun] & [Proper Noun] I sent her home by a sick soldier ed: not normandy
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Virginia (born in SE [???] Ohio[?]) Became attached Oct 19 1861 [Illegible] My cat, I had her four months in the army. She was not afraid of horses, guns or any noise, used to be with me on picket & seemingly lulled herself to sleep unde[r] my arm. I sent her home by a sick soldier. [e:] Ohio might be wrong, it could be a mangling of some native american name or a somewhere nicknamed chia? and seemingly is actually regularly Jaguars! has a new favorite as of 00:16 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Apparently the "tobacco smoke enema" is both a fantastic username and something Europeans adopted from the Native Americans, and I'm desperately hoping it was just the world's greatest joke played on the white man.
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That's not "Ohio", it's "
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That makes sense, I just wasted 1/2 hour at work looking for likely placenames in Virginia 
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Jaguars! posted:Virginia (born in SE [???] Ohio[?]) “Regularly buried herself to sleep”, not “seemingly lulled herself to sleep”. I concur with “born in Seceschia”.
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Platystemon posted:“Regularly buried herself to sleep”, not “seemingly lulled herself to sleep”.
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As a connoisseur of cursive, it's this:quote:Virginia (born in SCeceshia) Also that's a very good drawing. Who was the soldier who made it? Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 03:36 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jun 10, 2019 03:33
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The earliest recorded incidence of catloaf.
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If you wanted to curse someone in ancient Rome you could buy prewritten curse tablets. All you had to do was to add your victim's name on it.
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Alhazred posted:If you wanted to curse someone in ancient Rome you could buy prewritten curse tablets. All you had to was to add your victim's name on it. Can I have my slave chisel it in or is that not conducive to effective hexing?
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Platystemon posted:Can I have my slave chisel it in or is that not conducive to effective hexing? Lol, just lol if you don't have Enriqius chisel bespoke curses specifically tailored to your enemies
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PAVLA DEAN: If you don't have home-grown curses, store bought is fine.
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Platystemon posted:Can I have my slave chisel it in or is that not conducive to effective hexing? The tablets were made out of lead so you didn't have to chisel it.
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PMush Perfect posted:PAVLA DEAN: If you don't have home-grown curses, store bought is fine. it was the barefoot contessa you ignoramous
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Right, sorry. PAVLA DEAN is the one who carves all her curses into sticks of butter.
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Some of the curse tablets: "I bind you Theodotis, daughter of Eus, to the tail of the snake and the head of the crocodile and the horns of the ram and the poison of the asp and the hairs of the cat and the appendage of the gods, so that you may not ever be able to have sex with another man or be screwed or buggered or give oral sex or take pleasure with another man, except me alone Ammonion the son of Hermitaris." "O thunder-and-lightning-hurling Iao, strike, bind, bind together Babylas the greengrocer. As you struck the chariot of Pharaoh, so strike Babylas' offensiveness." "Let burning heat consume the sexual parts of Allous, [her] vulva, [her] members, until she leaves the household of Apollonios. Lay Allous low with fever, with sickness unceasing,…insolence, hatred, obnoxiousness until she departs the household of Apollonios."
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Alhazred posted:Some of the curse tablets:
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2:30 AM back in 1987 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaA
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PMush Perfect posted:So they were mostly cursing women and retail workers, huh? Some things never change. They were also cursing sport teams they didn't like.
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PMush Perfect posted:So they were mostly cursing women and retail workers, huh? Some things never change. what did a Roman "i wanna see your manager" haircut look like?
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Cacafuego posted:what did a Roman "i wanna see your manager" haircut look like? Heavily curled, probably as a blonde wig (a very prestigious style for wealthy women).
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