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A Wooloo for all seasons@mockwooloo.bsky.social |
When people start saying things like "we never used to have all these new diseases and allergies and conditions they've made up now", it always makes me think about how a LOT of pre-20th century literature was based around the idea that people keep getting sick and dying and nobody really knew why.
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cagey ratfish 🐟🐈⬛🎨🏳️⚧️
@cageyratfish.bsky.social
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Nobody talks about "miasma" and "humours" anymore, so frustrating 😹 The word "influenza" literally means "influence" and refers to the belief that seasonal flu outbreaks were caused by the "influence" of the stars
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Thaily
@thaily.bsky.social
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Demonic possession, obvi.
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Madame Hardy
@madamehardy.bsky.social
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Letter to the Lancet: "Yeah, looking back this famous person's illness looks a LOT like multiple sclerosis."
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Alyssa Harad
@alyssaharad.bsky.social
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I was just thinking about this! Specifically I was thinking about how we should be able to use that long history of vague illness to prove the realness of our current understanding, but instead folks get treated like 19th C hysterics bc misogyny.
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Joyce Park
@troutgirl.bsky.social
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I mean... Whole religions were based on this.
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Jenn
@jennwa.bsky.social
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I think my obsession with the Brontë sisters and Austen was formative in my desire to become a scientist.
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A Wooloo for all seasons
@mockwooloo.bsky.social
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"She was always weak and sickly. Gluten? What's that?" "He went into a decline and took to his bed for years. In a way, you could say his fatigue was chronic" "The child choked on a nut. We think that's what happened, anyway - at least, he ate some peanuts then suddenly stopped breathing..."
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Fiona Moore (new story collection, Human Resources, out now)
@drfionamoore.bsky.social
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And as an asthmatic I wonder about all those cases of “chronic consumption.”
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Fiona Moore (new story collection, Human Resources, out now)
@drfionamoore.bsky.social
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“Perished of fits”. Okay, that could be a stroke, a heart attack, anaphylactic shock, epilepsy…
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Catherine the 🍓Redhead
@rapieress.bsky.social
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In 1964 my Irish grandmother succumbed to celiac disease. 1964.
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Marie 🧪🇺🇸🌈🏳️⚧️🚴♀️🐟🐕🇺🇦☮️
@rmholt.bsky.social
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“Sweating sickness”
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slava deez
@svunt.bsky.social
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Every "new" mental health condition was just lumped into diagnoses like "touched" or "nerves" or "hysteria" eighty years ago.
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Anthrodiva
@anthrodiva.bsky.social
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We had ague, and drops, and quinsy and catarrh..... People are just ignorant
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Emily Johnson
@emilyrj.bsky.social
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Amazing that despite the main conditions being constant (the biggest three are dysautonomias including POTS, MECFS and MCAS) for centuries across countless viruses and infections and immune events, people can be surprised at all POTS medical lit goes back nearly 2 centuries, MECFS a few more
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Lizard
@lizardky.bsky.social
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I just point out that not only are the Egyptian mummies with cancer, there are dinosaur bones with cancer. (And proving you can never win with Those People, they immediately reply, "Well, they never smoked or had asbestos, so that's proof it's all a scam!")
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Heather, Dice Goblin
@errantdreams.bsky.social
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Especially women wasting away of "hysteria." Or vampires. Could be vampires.
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JThomasAlbert
@jthomasalbert.bsky.social
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"We lost so many people to demonic possession and witches' curses last winter. Now go dump that chamber pot out the window and into the street."
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Juli
@julimarie.bsky.social
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In decline, overcome, studied too hard, sickly, weak, vapors...
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Taross Blackburn-Tawner
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They still have a term for when they can't figure it out: Idiopathic. Which is, according to House, just a way for idiots to say they were to stupid to figure it out.
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wishda
@wishda.bsky.social
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Margaret Atwood’s A Distant Mirror talks about how many of our shittiest parenting techniques are a remnant of an age when parents were taught to distance themselves from their children less they get too attached and fall apart when they die. You had big families so some would make it to adulthood.
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liv
@livya.bsky.social
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this is basically the plot of the Secret Garden, as I recall. “oh the child Colin? he simply has a mysterious illness, we don’t know why, we’ve decided to lock him in a room and never speak to him again”
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Jennifer Liang
@jenniferliang.bsky.social
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“A trip to the seaside will restore you” because your house is painted with arsenic and lead.
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Rogue 🏳️⚧️⚧️
@roguefembot.bsky.social
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While I think it's true that all sorts of conditions, allergies, problems were misdiagnosed/not understood in the past...I also think environmental pollution is still a huge contributing factor to modern levels of things like asthma and cancer.
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Jennie Jordan
@jenniewren.bsky.social
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My grandfather had ‘chronic bronchitis’. My son has asthma
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