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this idea seems rather tame when you compare it to a bunch of other batshit crazy ideas people were having in ancient greece, like: each time an eel smashes into a rock, a tiny piece of eel breaks off, and then that tiny piece of eel turns into an adult eel and thats how eels are born.

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lemmeee@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s funny how they treated cancer:

Treatment was based on the humour theory of four bodily fluids (black and yellow bile, blood, and phlegm). According to the patient’s humour, treatment consisted of diet, blood-letting, and/or laxatives.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cancer#Early_dia…

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nowadays doctors are pretty humourless.
  
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Stamau123@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Funilly enough, I think we still don’t know how some eels mate, so maybe they were on to something

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