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>In the 19th century, however, women were unable to eat or drink and could die from malnutrition and dehydration. What?
The sad thing is there are also very successful oral fluid replacement regimes, but they are hard & not intuitive.
> Dr Suzannah Lipscomb show us the dangerous ways the Victorians adulterated food and its deadly consequences.
Apparently they added something to milk which made it smell ok even whem spoiled. But causing tuberculosis and killing huge amounts of ppls.
While living there, I swore to myself I would never live in a trailer again and stated "I would rather live in a tent." Which I did, in actual fact, do for some years at a later date.
I got healthier while sleeping in a tent and desperately poor.
Doctors used to take their little black bag and do house calls. This allowed them to know a lot of things about your life without asking and to factor that into their diagnosis and treatment.
I think medicine is worse off for no longer doing that and I think Sick Building Syndrome is much more prevalent than people realize.
So why? Article doesn't answer the question.
Maybe it's more prosaic than what you expected (I did), but it's there: > Haworth's drinking water, they believe, came from springs which were contaminated by rainwater that had soaked through the church graveyard - which was close to the parsonage where the Brontes lived. Long-term exposure to the bacterial infections this caused could have weakened the constitutions of the siblings and those of their neighbours, wh…
Many years ago, I lived in a trailer for a few months. My health went to hell and the experience was nightmarish. While living there, I swore to myself I would never live in a trailer again and stated "I would rather live in a tent." Which I did, in actual fact, do for some years at a later date. I got healthier while sleeping in a tent and desperately poor. Doctors used to take their little black bag and do house ca…
Many years ago, I lived in a trailer for a few months. My health went to hell and the experience was nightmarish. While living there, I swore to myself I would never live in a trailer again and stated "I would rather live in a tent." Which I did, in actual fact, do for some years at a later date. I got healthier while sleeping in a tent and desperately poor. Doctors used to take their little black bag and do house ca…
So why? Article doesn't answer the question.
Because their water source was contaminated by rainwater that ran through a graveyard. I don't know if that's a plausible claim, but that's the claim.
>In the 19th century, however, women were unable to eat or drink and could die from malnutrition and dehydration. What?
It’s saying (poorly) that women afflicted by hyperemesis gravidarum couldn’t keep fluids down- today, IV fluids bypass this problem, and are extremely effective. The sad thing is there are also very successful oral fluid replacement regimes, but they are hard & not intuitive.
I'm a scifi guy but have read Jane Eyre three times. I don't think I can define the appeal. Or why I connect Jane with Beth Harmon and perhaps Lisbeth Salandar.
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Maybe it's more prosaic than what you expected (I did), but it's there: > Haworth's drinking water, they believe, came from springs which were contaminated by rainwater that had soaked through the church graveyard - which was close to the parsonage where the Brontes lived. Long-term exposure to the bacterial infections this caused could have weakened the constitutions of the siblings and those of their neighbours, wh…
Good Lord.