a little place in a big world.

Charley. BTS has taken over my life, but I reblog a bit of everything.

[thememedaddy]

[elysiumwaters]

Me when I see people knowing more about my special interest than I do

[snow-nose]

ID: a panel from dungeon meshi, featuring laios, who looks anguished as he yells "i do like dragons too... ... but when i see real dragon fans... ... i can't stand my own lack of commitment!" end ID

[snoopyoftheday]

reminder to be kind to one another

[kermit2thebit]

Quickest way to my heart? Stab wound probably.

[theboookwitch]

- 99.8% of cdrama MLs

[thissweetenamor]

[dietspam16]

[making-friendos]

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[macgyvermedical]

In the 1700s, blood transfusion was used to treat psychosis. Oddly, sometimes it worked.

So a question for my followers: Give your best guess as to why this could have worked without looking it up.

I will answer tomorrow.

[macgyvermedical]

Answer: A particularly common form of psychosis occurred in the final stage of infection with syphilis. Syphilis is an uncommon bacteria in that is is extremely sensitive to temperature- so sensitive that a high fever greatly reduced or even eliminated infection with the bacteria. In fact, once quinine became available to treat malaria, which caused repeated high fevers, intentional infection with malaria was used to cure syphilis, which would then be treated with quinine. But in the 1700s, they (Europeans, at least) didn't have quinine yet.

So how did a blood transfusion treat syphilis? Well, in the 1700s, blood transfusions were not done with human blood- they were done with animal blood, usually lamb or calf blood. Since biblically calf or lamb blood was pure and contributed to the sweet nature of the animals, it was thought that if given to someone who was experiencing paranoia and hallucinations, the psychotic symptoms would decrease. This was not the case.

The amounts were usually small enough that the person didn't die. But it did cause frequent transfusion reactions. These reactions frequently caused high fevers, which treated the syphilis and helped decrease the symptoms caused by it.

[headspace-hotel]

Made so many errors they accidentally added up into something sort of right

[kingofdoma]

you gotta rack up WAY more wrongs before it becomes a right, bro, like FAT STACKS of wrongs

[alleesaur]

sardines creature

[kirimisosoup]

individual renders 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

[gremlininho]

looking. at you

[graphitepaper]

Layouts by the legendary animator Yoshinori Kanada (金田伊功) from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 classic My Neighbor Totoro

[itisiives]

[pride-knightess]

@snozzberries96 @awkwardsocialfailure @ambientradiation

[im-kickn-it]

THAT-

that is coheed and cambria. That is the man who wrote the song.

[pride-knightess]

Its mr coheed and cambria

[important-cat-pics]

[deafeningcreationearthquake]

[athelind]

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Wikipedia

This Month in Physics History

APS Archives

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The woman who first grasped the elemental power of stars

Cecilia Payne: Discoverer of the Chemical Makeup of Stars | AMNH

What are the stars made of? At 25, Cecilia Payne answered this fundamental question in her Ph.D. thesis.

Amazing.

[monkeywiki]

28 year old tumblr users will look at you and say do you remember thwomp day of 2013 when everyone was posting thwomp from mario 64 in different audio

[estro-boi]

Please make art. You don't have to bare your soul or make a masterpiece, you can be silly and you can be derivative if you want. You don't even have to show it to anyone. Just please make something, it's so good for you