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[–] 89 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It's incredible that humanity has done this well

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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).

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