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Dr. Linnaeus divided the human race into four main racial branches—Americanus (red-skinned, stubborn, easily angered); Asiaticus (avaricious, diabolical); Africanus (careless, unreliable); and Europeanus (clever, stable, really very nice).
Subraces were designated wild men, dwarfs, troglodytes (primitives), and “lazy Patagonians” (South Americans).

دویست سیصد سال بیشتر نیست ها، چقدر وحشی و بی مغز بودن یه سریشون.

چه در مغزشان می‌گذشت که هیستریا رو اون چنین تعریف و با اون روش‌ها درمان می‌کردند؟

With body snatching big business, British lawmakers passed the Murder Act in 1751. As if execution weren’t enough, the law prohibited the decent burial of a hanged murderer’s body. Not coincidentally, it also ensured fast delivery of corpses to doctors and anatomists, who stood waiting by their tables.

میگه شکنجه‌گر ها هم دکترهای خوبی میشدند؛ چون باید آدمه رو خوب میکردند تا بتونند بیشتر عذابش بدهند، یا جاهای آناتومیک حساس رو خوب بلد می‌بودند تا بدونند چیکار کنند بهتر جواب بگیرند.

وای درمان‌های lovesickness ش🤣🤣🤣

From the Smith Papyrus, we know that head wounds were treated with fresh meat, and for a headache the Kahun Papyrus prescribed goose fat rubbed into the eyes, with a helping of jackass liver. A person with a toothache would have a dead mouse stuffed down their throat.