Living it up in Ancient Greece
Living it up in Ancient Greece
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Counterpoint: Antibiotics yayyy
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Just rub a fungus on the wound smh
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Burry yourself in manure as Hippocrates intended!
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That is until you break a bone and learn that there are no pain killers.
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The ancient Greeks used electric rays to numb the pain of childbirth and operations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_ray
Not the most effective, but hey, better then opioid addiction
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But they literally did have, well, not opioids, but opium.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium
Evidence from ancient Greece indicates that opium was consumed in several ways, including inhalation of vapors, suppositories, medical poultices, and as a combination with hemlock for suicide.
So no problem with pain medication, actually. @Etterra@lemmy.world
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She be begging donkey dick for bread by the end of the week
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As long as you weren’t born a slave i guess.
Statement holds true today as well
Or a woman.
Ancient Greece, generally speaking, hated women
I’m interested in learning the context here.
Because modernity also hates women and I guess I’m ignorant but.. weren’t there options for women then..? Like midwife/doula-type things, herbalist/witch, spinster/seamstress-clothier?
Potentially more than they could have in modern history?