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Autism is not caused by radiation 🙄🙄🙄

I would honestly read a book that was entirely present day historians/physicians diagnosing historical figures and giving them fake "autopsies."

Wait, how did she just pronounce Tycho Brahe??

Wow, Ivan the Terrible was . . . terrible.

Well I wanted gruesome and macabre!

all those fancy building so full of poop and pee, i am personally offended by this chapter. you fuckers, the Romans invented public toilets and aqueducts over 2,000 years ago! QUIT SHITTING AND PEEING ON THE FLOOR.

The hanged carcass of a red-haired man prepared in various ways was considered a cure-all. Why, past humans. WHY.

I'm getting Radium Girls flashbacks.

Paracelsus speaking nothing but the truth, calling modern day doctors "piss prophets" and recommending evidence based practices. (Also, I didn't realize his real name was "Van Hohenheim" (among other names). That must be who the character of the same name in Fullmetal Alchemist was named after.)

oh man, when i was trying to get rid of my teenage acne, i totally missed out on using the urine of a boy!

Gotta take a break from Carol. I need something more fast-paced and macabre. Lol.