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Aaron Burr would be a DBT therapists dream

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I still feel that almost the best part of Burr's journal is Bixby's snarky footnotes.

"It is nearly worth the twelve months I have been detained here to have got so well dentified[1]

[1] Burr, who had had so much to do with dentists, may be excused for coining this word"

Prior to Paris, Burr had tried to avoid having to see a dentist despite a "tormenting toothache" so bad he stuffed the hollow tooth with opium and camphor. Apparently that hollow tooth was the "most important of the few I have left" and he didn't want it pulled.

He was all of 54.

It's not that people of the revolutionary period had no oral hygiene. The use of toothpicks was common, and some people would also chew on a frayed stick or use a hog's-bristle toothbrush for basic mechanical cleaning. But there was no such thing as toothpaste; the closest anyone came was using things like charcoal as whiteners. Since this whitens teeth by scouring away the stained layer, it would have been the opposite of helpful.

Back in Elizabethan times, bad breath was countered by eating sweets; again with the counterproductive. By the Revolutionary (Regency) era, this had largely been replaced by swilling out your mouth with a mixture of vinegar and mint, or maybe brandy and water. How common this was I don't know, and whether it was a part of Burr's routine is impossible to say. It's unlikely to have helped much in any case; most alcohol contains sugars, after all.

One big problem was that dental care had regressed somewhat from some of the heights it had reached in early Mediterranean civilisations. They had used drills and packed hollowed teeth with fillings, but by the 18th and 19th century the solution to most issues was simply extraction. But this may have been partly due to the other big problem; the diets of the middle classes who could afford dentistry. The increased use of sugar and the frequent consumption of alcohol (which can cause dry mouth in itself, and additionally usually contains sugars and acids) may have simply made it pointless to try to save a tooth that was already significantly damaged.

Either way, all my fantasies of isekai-ing Burr to the modern world also involve introducing him to my dentist.

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the winner of the poll was WS so here's the next chapter in which hamilton gets into the 18th century equivalent of twitter drama and burr smiles and nods while jefferson talks about his funko pop collection and also madison has a Bad Time

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Some sketch of Burr and Mulligannnn :DD

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You know, the trial of Levi Weeks offers a fascinating contrast in legal styles.

The opening for the defence - unattributed, but clearly either Hamilton or Livingston - goes on for several pages and includes this lovely passage:

"I know the unexampled industry that has been exerted to destroy the reputation of the accused, and to immolate him at the shrine of persecution without the solemnity of a candid and impartial trial. I know that hatred, revenge and cruelty, all the vindictive and ferocious passions have assembled in terrible array and exerted every engine to gratify their malice. The thousand tongues of rumour have been steadily employed in the fabrication and dissemination of falsehoods, and every method has been taken to render their slanders universal. We have witnessed the extraordinary means which have been adopted to enflame the public passions and to direct the fury of popular resentment against the prisoner. Why has the body been exposed for days in the public streets in a manner the most indecent and shocking?—to attract the curiosity and arouse the feelings of numberless spectators. Such dreadful scenes speak powerfully to the passions: they petrify the mind with horror—congeal the blood within our veins—and excite the human bosom with irresistible, but undefineable emotions. When such emotions are once created they are not easily subdued."

The defence's closing speech is by Burr, and is a much shorter three paragraphs read out from a legal text, finishing:

"Another that happened in my remembrance in Staffordshire where A. was long missing, and upon strong presumptions B. was supposed to have murdered him, and to have consumed him to ashes, in an oven, that he should not be found, whereupon B. was indicted of murder, and convict and executed, and within one year after A. returned, being indeed sent beyond sea by B. against his will, and so, tho’ B. justly deserved death, yet he really was not guilty of the offence for which he suffered."

I love the pretty rhetoric, but I know which I find more persuasive.

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