Skelly Snoo
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Bukka's Curious
The halfling stepped out from his front door and took in a deep breath of fresh autumn forest air. His home was built into the ground beneath a large redwood, a comfortable little place that opened out into one room with a bed on the far end and a large fireplace where a hole opened up into a make-shift chimney, and a small table sat in the center with shelves lining his walls, all decorated with jars full of preserved deceased animals and other animal trinkets. The forest itself was comfortably filled with many redwoods tightly fit together and underbrush decorating the trunks at the base. As mentioned, it was autumn, and the forest floor was littered with colourful leaves and twigs that snapped beneath his small feet as he found a spot on a tree root and sipped from the cup of tea in his hands.
By Skelly Snoo4 years ago in Futurism
Plague Doctors
For more history, collowing @kingdomoftributes on Instagram! What was a plague doctor? The Medico della Peste, also known as The Beak Doctor, they were a medieval physician meant to treat bubonic plague victims. They treated everyone due to pay from the city, but some charged more for "special" treatments or falsified cures. Majority were amateurs and only counted for the number of casualties instead of curing, and little were genuinely experienced in medicine. At the time, claiming to be a healer wasn't difficult and only few knew with accuracy what they did, and so many only worsened it. Generally, doctors weren't associated with knowing what they were truly doing until the 19th century. People in France and the Netherlands called them "empirics" due to their lack of medical training, as there was an example of s fruit vendor being a doctor. Yet, because of the illness, they were seen as valuable and revered and were given special privileges at time. For ex: there was an incident where Barcelona sent two of these doctors to Tortosa in 1650 and they were captured and demanded for ransom... Matteo du Angelo was a doctor in 1348 that was hired for 50 florin a year in Orveito... doctors were hired by Pope Clement VI to handle the sick in Avignon... Florence and Perugia used them to do autopsies to find a cure and a cause of death. These doctors witnessed dozens of wills during epidemics and gave advice on what to do before death (it depended per patient and after the medieval era the nature between doc and patience developed a complex ethical code) and other important document, and since the job was more demographic, some doctors ran off with wills and documents. And since desperate times called for desperate measures, The closer to dying the worse the testament. The most doctors knew was just the person they were treating, and the less they knew medically the more comfy they were with creativity. Regardless of economic status, doctors served to everyone, but some did "invent" cures or medicines that had a fee for the wealthy.
By Skelly Snoo4 years ago in Longevity