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GCanuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Thanks. That’s helpful. And because I had to know:

Among unfathomable “Diseases and Casualties,” Planet (or plannet) was “likely a shorthand for “planet-struck [because] Many medical practitioners believed the planets influenced health and sanity.” The label applied to any sudden illness or death, such as a heart attack or aneurysm, according to “15 Historic Diseases that Competed with Bubonic Plague.”

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