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RE: off topic one last time

Promises, promises . . .

You conveniently omitted the theory of balancing humors,
otherwise known as Galen's Delusion, that people could be cured
by bleeding and purging.

As for Florence Nightingale, she would have been a total disaster
had he tried to treat a yellow-fever epidemic with her otherwise
sensible prescription of lots and lots of fresh air.

George Scithers of owlswick@xxxxxxxx