We should keep in mind that these tips are specifically chosen because of their unusual and laughable nature, and so should refrain from attempting to generalize about the nature of medieval medicine from a biased dataset.
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#22Seems to be a lot of horse dung involved.
It is not that dumb.
Eating camel dung for example helps with serious stomach infections, its old and well known Bedouin trick (tested by Wehrmacht soldiers in Africa during WWII).
Apart from parasites and bacteria shit could be beneficial in theory - as its full of minerals and could help to regenerate skin etc.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
> steal church parchments, extract the liver of a dog How are these "hard to achieve"?
Big and heavy - requires anatomic knowledge (you know there was no Wikipedia showing exactly where that dog carries it’s liver)...
You don't need academic knowledge of anatomy if you grow up in a culture (that of medieval peasants) where hunting, cleaning, and cooking animals was likely common. Much can be inferred from analogy, in the way the non-human dissections were (and still are) used for training surgeons.
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#24> For to be invysybell
Someone should try it. It is proven! But the issue is, those who proved it are long dead so we need some new evidence.
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#25> If you doubt this’ll work, test it on a dog which is completely red. This really confuses me. Why does the dog need to be red? Also, if someone ever tested it, it should be obvious to not work...
It is probably hard to find a dog that is completely red, so there is no way to verify the cure beforehand. People must have thought the cure was rubbish even in medieval times.
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#26Seems to be a lot of horse dung involved.
Humans are one of the only animals that don’t eat poop. The benefits of poo exposure is an increased diversity of gut bacteria and biome, which we are just starting to understand the benefits of.
This is one big benefit of having a dog.
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#27We should keep in mind that these tips are specifically chosen because of their unusual and laughable nature, and so should refrain from attempting to generalize about the nature of medieval medicine from a biased dataset.
Except that any historian of medicine will tell you that pharmaceuticals well into the 18th century were dominated by ideas of "potency" where surely things would have beneficial effect because they have powerful smells or whatever. Uses of animal excrement are exceedingly common in early-modern remedy guides.
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#28Mark my words, these tips will be on the Goop website by the end of the year.
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#29>For a man who’s been painfully beaten >Take cudweed and boil it in fine ale, and drink it first thing in the morning and last thing at night; and make the patient a bed in a pile of steaming horse dung, and lay him in it. Sleeping in a pile of horse sh*t... I don't see any hygenic problem with that, let alone the smell...
London, and other towns and cities, had a bit of a shit problem in the 1300s. Streets full of horse and human shit, households throwing their waste into the streets and/or river or if lucky selling it to a nearby cloth dyer, water dangerous to drink so best stick to beer or wine, the serious health risk from floors covered in rushes. OK, if you were posh enough there was a chute from the privvy straight into the moat…
> London, and other towns and cities, had a bit of a shit problem in the 1300s.
Up through the 20th century.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great...
https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/when-horses-po...
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#30Can Sleeping in Horse Shit Cure Your Bruises? The Answer May Surprise You!