Egregoros

Signal feed

Timeline

Post

Remote status

Context

35
I did a pretty deep dive on that question and what I found was they just blamed everything kings ate. Because back in the day pretty much only royalty got gout.

Jared Leto needed to gain a bunch of weight for a role so he gorged himself on carbs and got gout. When he cut out the carbs the gout went away.

I joke but the issue with modern medicine is that the massive groundbreaking humane advancements (antibiotics, safe general anesthesia making all types of surgery possible, MRI/CT/angiography revolutionizing radiology, typed and crossmatched blood transfusions) are always overshadowed by infinite quackery

Forget where I heard it (maybe from Dark Enlightenment) but a strong argument can be made that sewage engineers saved far more lives than doctors since the start of the 20th century. Cities used to quite literally be shit holes

Replies

0
No replies yet.