Your character learns that diseases are caused not by miasma, as all the doctors and the Church claim, but by tiny spirits invisible to the naked eye. What does your character do with this wisdom?
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he makes a better thread
Also calls OP a homosexual
based
I purposefully contract them all
Nurgle is pleased with your decision.
Bless my food as usual to turn away these foul spirits away from my food and drink.
Be that butthole at every church service that says Askshully
>Priest of Juiblex
Infect the false priests. Poison the well. Again. Run a pestilence cult in the cisterns without telling them who they worship. Feed the curious to fostered slimes. Finally, I can get some work done!
Honestly he wouldn't bring it up, as I would assume it's a joke by the GM.
I think injecting modern real life science into established fantasy worlds in such a clashing manner is pretty damn lame.
You mean despite the illnesses that are caused by miasma that actually exists like spirits and demons because it's a fantasy setting?
What is the PRACTICAL difference between Miasma and germ theory?
Miasma theory and germ theory both posit roughly the same solutions (fire, washing, obstruction of airways).
Miasma theory just ascribes a higher-than-appropriate value to opening windows.
Germs are self-reproducing. Miasma is not.
Miasma theory blames the smells themselves, therefore leading to solutions like loading up on sweet smelling herbs to duck the plague. Germ theory recognizes that the lovely babbling brook in the sweet-smelling meadow can still kill you so boil that water, son. You also have the problem of sterility; a "clean" bandage or surgical instrument by pre-germ standards can and will kill you in truly horrible ways. Go read accounts of surgery in the late 18th and early 19th century, you get a lot of, "We successfully repaired the injury, then his bowels filled with pus and IDK maybe his pancreas had demons."
Black person the medieval arabs used alcohol to disinfect their surgical equipment. They can’t be the only ones.
For what it’s worth they kinda were, despite the memes during that period they probably had some of the best medical knowledge on the planet.
medieval arabs were quite advanced
Europeans used water. And not even fresh or free-flowing water. Some basin that's more heme than H2O that you're slopping a scalpel in. Rags that went from that last guy's chest cavity to the floor to the laundry in the river if you're lucky to the gash on your right arm. Hope you're a leftie. Or not; you'll be beaten mercilessly until you conform, sinner. Who am I kidding, the amputation is what kills you.
All of it inherited from the hellenic era, despite their best efforts to burn all libraries.
Sorry, we should have added a trigger warning for you types. But go on, explain it all away so you can preserve a sense of cultural superiority that you have no actual connection to in any way.
>"steals" medicine from the Greeks instead of boylove
How unironically gay.
Adding to this: people liked the taste of cholera infected water, slowing down the understanding of waterborne infection. There was no technical reason someone couldn't reason it out (as they eventually did) except the competing explanation sort of fooled them.
Miasma theory led people to wrong conclusions like foul smelling pus being a death marker and odorless pus being a signifier of a healthily healing wound when both are just the same byproduct of the immune system fighting an infection.
Amusingly, the Mongols believed that boiling water was necessary to scare away evil spirits.