TIL of the antimony pill - peasantry would reuse pills through generations peasants are so gross
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Guys check out this poorstrag, he doesn't even have an ancestral antimony pill!!!
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Kinda disgusting but I applaud the ingenuity of people of old
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I think after like 6 days of constipation back prior to the days of pharmacies, would help cure any reluctance
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Apparently if you were rich enough you'd instead use a cup where you'd leave alcohol overnight to dissolve a bit of the metallic antimony and thus avoid having to dig through your own feces to recover the pill
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Magnesium is much safer alternative, unluckily that it's not widely used before 19th century.
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Did the g*rmans come up with this idea?
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all vile things that came from Eur*pe originated in krautland
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Reminds me of Ayurvedic medicine: an Ayurvedic doctor talked about mercury metal as an medicine, and when others questioned about safety of such a drug, he replied that the mercury was disinfected.
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Didn't a wumao Emperor die from taking mercury to become immortal? WE WUZ CHANGZ
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Yeah i forgot his name but its his tomb the terracotta soldiers came from, they're waiting to open it til they have techniques to preserve everything inside but supposedly theres moats full of mercury cause they thought it brought immortality and the ceiling looks like the night sky with pearls for stars and etc
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秦始皇 is 2000 years ago, long before Marx even existed.
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He wasn't just a random chink emperor. He was the FIRST one historically and permanently fricked up Chinese culture.
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I dunno what y'all doing but we take promoney pills over here
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FUNNY REDDIT COMMENTS!!!!
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So exactly how do you jerk off to people you've never even seen pictures of? Do you like, navigate to their own rdrama comments that you bookmarked and start stroking it as you read?
"Ungh... that's the stuff... dunk on that LOLcow baby... yeah, dunk on them harder... now a little smugposting, that's right. Doesn't that feel good baby? Punish that naughty LOLcow. Smack them around, teach them who's boss! Oh frick, now it looks like Snappy is getting in on the action. Yes! Frick, yes! Zozbot, zoz the frick out of that thread! Now the full zozzle! OH YEAH! Oh god I'm coming!"
Snapshots:
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ghostarchive.org
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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