OO AND ANOTHER THING the reason England was so late to the yay human dissection let’s party club (they started the century after everyone else) was because England was v religious and didnt approve of dissection because they thought people needed all their parts in order to get into the afterlife (something along those lines) and it took them a while but they eventually allowed dissection for medical practices which is p neat but anyways—
oh and the reason people say to eat hot soup when you have a cold is from this old wildly inaccurate medical practice that basically was saying you needed a balance of everything, so if you had a cold you had too much cold and needed to eat hot things (like soup) to get rid of the cold. Also there were conditions that were thought to be caused by too much blood so medical people went “ah yes you have too much blood let’s drain some of it” because that’s how it be sometimes
I have now realized I’m infodumping so sorry about that I’ll stop lol
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I love having friends who know stuff it’s so nice
