Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
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AceFuzzLord, I don’t know if anyone else has said it, but the belief that human illness and all that were caused by an imbalance of four bodily humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm. It’s an old belief where the earliest I found it being practiced was around 400 B.C.
sighofannoyance, opposites attract
joel_feila, Blood letting. Have a fever, must be to much blood inside you.
AWittyUsername, Blood letting actually does have medical basis, especially for people that suffer from hemochromatosis.
ComradePorkRoll, I think they’re getting at the fact that medicine is not as insane anymore.
Atelopus-zeteki, lol, not AS insane. Sterile leeches:
https://www.leeches.com/products/leech-pharm-starter-package-sterile-leeches
If it sounds 'insane' but it works, is it really insane?
jflorez, That there is a god (or gods)
kingaloo, Drowning women to determine if they are witches.
Potatos_are_not_friends, It still works now.
100% of people drowned are absolutely not witches!
Everythingispenguins, Are you sure? I don’t know if it has ever been definitely proven that witches float. We might have accidentally drowned a few witches.
Kolanaki, (edited ) If you had magic powers, would you let a bunch of dumbshit muggles who believe in witches drown you?
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