Hegelian PrincessPeople are calling it medieval that the king doesn't believe in chemotherapy and would rather drink weird potions, but that's not true. Medieval kings wanted the best healthcare they could get, it's just that the best healthcare they could get wasn't very good. Modern people are far weirder because they *could* get good healthcare but instead they want the potion
smoking ππ£π¦πΎπ with 'ilu@julieofthespirits to be fair what's the point of a king if not to hold on to outdated and harmful ideas far past their usefulness
@jake2 I celebrate it. Nick Cave said that he attended the coronation because "England is a weird place, this is a weird event" and I think they should keep rolling with it
@jake2 No More Cool Britannia
Make Britannia a Folk Horror Story Again
@julieofthespirits I'm strongly anti-monarchist as far as government goes but I kinda think we should let them keep pretending. Like they can walk around still in their fancy outfits and LARP like they still have power, but the castle is more like a public zoo situation
@jake2 no, we should go accelerationist with it. Abolish the House of Commons. Give nobles real power again, except that also includes all the celebrities that've been knighted over the years and so Elton John now has life or death powers over some random part of England
@julieofthespirits i can't stress enough how miserable a monarchist resurrection would make my life
@jake2 it would, but think about the other side: at least it would be funny
@julieofthespirits it's too real it's too real
sparrows (doll arc) :flaglesbian::neoamazonia::vriskasip:@julieofthespirits @jake2 thereβs at least one person on fedi who would unironically support this π
@dangerdyke @jake2 I don't doubt it
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ππ΄π©@jake2 @julieofthespirits Why stop there? We could also have a constitutional bourgeois who pretend to run around a trading room floor handing pieces of paper to each other. We could subsidise their cocaine for the hell of it
@avesbury_rosetta @julieofthespirits getting a job at the historical recreation place as the guy who just yells "filibuster"
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medieval is when the king spits on me to cure my sores
medieval is when the king spits on me to cure my sores
UkeBLCatboy@julieofthespirits TBF, the healthcare wasnt THAT bad, not in terms of surgery. They already did skull operations, relieved brain pressure, set broken bones, roughly knew things to prevent infection (cleaning wounds etc), removed arrows, etc in Roman times. Medieval times had field surgery to remove arrows and such.
Sure, also bloodletting, https://www.cancer.org/cancer/understanding-cancer/history-of-cancer/cancer-treatment-surgery.html, but in terms of cancer.. they couldnΒ΄t heal it, but they did now you would have to remove the tumor... not just a potion lol
@julieofthespirits Quote ". The ancients recognized that there was no curative treatment once a cancer had spread, and that intervention might be more harmful than no treatment at all. Galen did write about surgical cures for breast cancer if the tumor could be completely removed at an early stage. "
No potions here!
@julieofthespirits Additionally, they did now ways to prevent infections of wounds like https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20543642/
So the real misconception here is that in the middle ages they'd just feed him the contents of a witch cauldron and call it a day. Making it worse then medieval lol
Silver: an age-old treatment modality in modern times - PubMed
The use of silver as an antimicrobial for infection spans hundreds of years. The ancient Greeks and Romans used silver to disinfect their water and food supplies. Silver was also used in ancient times to treat burns and wounds as a wound dressing. Silver solutions were approved by the U.S. Food and β¦
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@UkeBLCatboy @julieofthespirits they also ate ground up mummies cause they thought they had healing properties due to a mistranslation.
wheatley gaming@julieofthespirits also who says chemotherapy *isnβt* a weird potion?