>In the 19th century, however, women were unable to eat or drink and could die from malnutrition and dehydration. What?
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Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)
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#22People are still living, and dying, like this. Usually not the middle classes though.
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#23>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.
What are those techniques? I'm quite intrigued by 'not intuitive'.
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#24Many 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…
Doctors still do house calls, but if you’re poor then you’re lucky to be seeing a doctor at all. Neither of these things have changed.
Unless you live in a country with universal healthcare.
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#25Reminds me of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo > 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.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
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#26Many 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…
Doctors still do house calls, but if you’re poor then you’re lucky to be seeing a doctor at all. Neither of these things have changed.
When I was kid in Germany the doctor would do housecalls when I had fever. These days I can imagine this done only for very old people, either in Germany or the US.
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#27Many 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…
Modern medicine in general is very good at treating symptoms but unfortunately focuses way too much on symptoms and not enough on living conditions, be it buildings, nutrition or other factors. A lot of buildings in the US have terrible air quality and bad drinking water quality. Add to that the unhealthy lifestyles people are living it's no wonder they get sick.
Unfortunately it seems kind of taboo to point this out to people. I know people who are 100 pound or more overweight and are getting back surgeries and knee and ankle replacements. The rational thing to do would be to tell them to lose weight first to reduce the strain on the joints. Or if somebody needs antidepressants maybe it would be a good idea to reduce workplace stress.
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#28Reminds me of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo > 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.
Additives put tuberculosis in milk? Are you sure it wasn't the cows that had TB?
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#29I'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.
I was just trying to explain why Jane Eyre was good to someone, and it's really hard to put into words.
Huh, I quit it at 35 of 38 chapters. I kept reading thinking “surely this will get good at some point” but then I realized that for me, it wouldn’t.
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#30Human life used to be fucking disgusting, jesus