Fascinating. I remember Twiggy and her affect on us. I not only felt fay at 5'8" and 150lbs, everyone told me I was fat. This included my mother. Let just say it was not good for me.
This entire Substack was an incredibly fascinating read. Ugh. Yes! Statins. My doctor put me on a teeny tiny dose & I started to feel dizzy & nauseous. I just stopped. Never again. Also, regarding obesity, I remembered reading about the French & how despite their high calorie foods they stay so thin so I researched it again!! Keep up the good work, John!
When you dig through the history of medicine and science, it's shocking how much of that sort of thing there was. For example, this is one of the critical moments from the history of blood transfusions (Excerpt from "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation").
"On June 15, 1667, a twenty-seven-year-old physician named Jean-Baptiste Denis, using the technique developed by Richard Lower, performed the first ever human blood transfusion. Denis had received a bachelor’s degree in theology and a doctorate in mathematics before studying medicine in Montpellier, in southern France. Later, after moving to Paris, he became the court doctor to King Louis XIV. Denis also dabbled in medical research. To perform his transfusion, Denis chose a fifteen-year-old boy who suffered from severe, debilitating fever. First, Denis removed three ounces of the boy’s blood. Then, he inserted a thin tube into an artery in a lamb’s neck, slipped the other end into the boy’s vein, and replaced the three ounces of the boy’s blood with the lamb’s blood. Denis’s reasoning was largely biblical. Blood determined spirit: lambs were calm and weak; stags were courageous and strong. Lamb’s blood, therefore, should calm the boy’s fever. Oddly, it worked. At first, the boy felt an intense heat travel up his arm. Five hours later, he had a “clear and smiling countenance.” Although he suffered a mild nosebleed, for the first time in two months, he ate and drank well. Denis later hired the boy as his valet, a constant reminder of his breakthrough experiment."
Fascinating. I remember Twiggy and her affect on us. I not only felt fay at 5'8" and 150lbs, everyone told me I was fat. This included my mother. Let just say it was not good for me.
It's too late to be a cancer free dwarf.
This entire Substack was an incredibly fascinating read. Ugh. Yes! Statins. My doctor put me on a teeny tiny dose & I started to feel dizzy & nauseous. I just stopped. Never again. Also, regarding obesity, I remembered reading about the French & how despite their high calorie foods they stay so thin so I researched it again!! Keep up the good work, John!
https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/how-the-french-stay-slim
Frightening numbers. The prognosis sucks. 🙄
freeman was a monster.
When you dig through the history of medicine and science, it's shocking how much of that sort of thing there was. For example, this is one of the critical moments from the history of blood transfusions (Excerpt from "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation").
"On June 15, 1667, a twenty-seven-year-old physician named Jean-Baptiste Denis, using the technique developed by Richard Lower, performed the first ever human blood transfusion. Denis had received a bachelor’s degree in theology and a doctorate in mathematics before studying medicine in Montpellier, in southern France. Later, after moving to Paris, he became the court doctor to King Louis XIV. Denis also dabbled in medical research. To perform his transfusion, Denis chose a fifteen-year-old boy who suffered from severe, debilitating fever. First, Denis removed three ounces of the boy’s blood. Then, he inserted a thin tube into an artery in a lamb’s neck, slipped the other end into the boy’s vein, and replaced the three ounces of the boy’s blood with the lamb’s blood. Denis’s reasoning was largely biblical. Blood determined spirit: lambs were calm and weak; stags were courageous and strong. Lamb’s blood, therefore, should calm the boy’s fever. Oddly, it worked. At first, the boy felt an intense heat travel up his arm. Five hours later, he had a “clear and smiling countenance.” Although he suffered a mild nosebleed, for the first time in two months, he ate and drank well. Denis later hired the boy as his valet, a constant reminder of his breakthrough experiment."