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[-] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 90 points 1 week ago

It's incredible that humanity has done this well

[-] amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I think about that guy very often lately...

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Consider the mere fact that Doctors exist, and have been a thing for thousands of years. I think this tells us that for every person that is incapable of keeping themselves alive, there's at least a hundred more just like that, and just one person smart enough to keep them all going.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I mean, there was a good chunk of that time where the doctors thought that bleeding someone to balance their humors was a valid treatment for a variety of things. Some things were treated with amputation with only alcohol as an anesthetic (and disinfectant, if they happened to splash some on the wound).

[-] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

And God forbid they even washed hands before an operation

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