Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Paracelsus and Medicine During the Renaissance" video.
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11:45 Dead from grief was a code word for suicide in some societies, as people who killed themselves were usually not allowed to be buried in consecrated ground, excommunicated post-mortem, had their inheritance "nationalized", or worse. Also, censorship. If you read Chinese literature, you have a disgraced general often receive a letter from his superiors that made him die from grief... yeah right, a grieved blade to the neck, more likely... It's weird how Americans are unable to comprehend figures of speech. Example, "Cancer and Wolf" as cause of death on same book doesn't mean literally choked by a big lobster and a wolfy, those are illnesses CALLED a crab (cancer) and wolf (lupus). Similarly, planet was a code for something that would not be named otherwise. Like a heart attack?
Edit: you do name Consumption and Rising of the Lights as TB and Croup. Though I've read the latter might be asthma, pneumonia, and emphysema. You never know the local slang of the era. That's why our meme jokes will be gibberish to internet archaeologists. :p
P.S. Most deaths were from lack of vaccines and/or antibiotics. Horrible what anti-vaxxers want to bring us to! Near 50% infant mortality rate was still there in East Europe when my grandmother was young, some of her children died little without explanation too.
The dumbest thing that people knew how antibiotics worked since Ancient Egypt, the women who owned breweries made molded bread into medicine... I read that in India, and some other ancient countries people also figured that out. And then 2000 years of dark ages. =(
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@ProfessorDaveExplains literally nothing in Bible says Earth is unmoving, or in center, in Genesis of all things! "Water" part is because Hebrew word for sky, Sha-mayim, has watter, mayim, as its root. Basic Hebrew. As to unmoving, the flerfers quote a passage that talks about Earth being God making ground FIRM under someone's feet in a battle in a much later episode, as proof of Bible saying "unmoving", but that's obviously talking about the steady ground and not the planet, duh.
Also, days of Creation have nothing to do with day and night cycle, which by itself is established at day 4. How stupid people need to be to think people who lived near Ancient Egypt, which was more developed than 19th century England, were as dumb as modern Americans who believe in Q and other conspiracies?.. O.o
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