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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m reading The Way We Never Were and it’s amazing how much we get wrong about the good old days.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah the good ole days when children and infants were dying left and right, a splinter could mean a slow painful death by infection, and the local doctor prescribes drilling a hole in your head to release bad spirits

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Don't forget the "bloodletting". Got to get that bad blood out along with the head spirits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Some people today practice self-trepanation