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Local politics, the county, and the world, as viewed by Tammy Maygra Tammy’s views are her own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Bill Eagle, his wife, his pastor, Tammy’s neighbors, Brady Preheim, Marty Rowe, President Elon Musk, President Trump, Stephan Miller, Mike Johnson, J.D. Vance, Vlad Putin, Ted Cruz, Kamala Harris, Trump’s MAGA followers, or my neighbor’s dogs. This Tammy’s Take (with the exception of this disclaimer) is not paid for or written by, or even reviewed by anyone but Tammy and she refuses to be bullied by anyone. See Bill’s Standard Disclaimer
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A Medieval Medical Handbook. Something that RFK jr. Could Use To Determine Healthy Practices For Modern Society
RFK & Medieval Medicine
Two German medical manuals — "How to Cure and Expel All Afflictions and Illnesses of the Human Body" and "A Useful and Essential Little Book of Medicine for the Common Man" — were published in 1531 by eye doctor Bartholomäus Vogtherr. His systematically gathered recipe books for common ailments, like hair loss and bad breath, quickly became bestsellers in Renaissance domestic medicine. People always leave molecular traces on the pages of books and other documents when they come into contact with paper. "These traces include components of sweat, sometimes saliva, metabolites, contaminants, and environmental components." Proteins and peptides are part of this mixture and are "often invisible to the naked eye. In other words sometimes people have their recipe ingredients on their fingers and it gets on the paper. The researchers sequenced 111 proteins from the Vogtherr manual. Most of the proteins were from the practitioners themselves, but several were associated with plants or animals that were featured in the curative recipes. Traces of European beech, watercress, and rosemary were recovered next to recipes recommending the use of these plants to cure hair loss and to strengthen the growth of facial and head hair, and "lipocalin" recovered next to a recipe that recommends the everyday use of human feces to wash one's bald head for overcoming hair loss points to reader-practitioners following such instructions. A far different approach that we have today unless Robert F Kennedy Jr. thinks it would be beneficial. Maybe go together with his brain eating worm. One extracted protein could match either tortoise shell or lizards. While 16th-century medical literature mentions that turtle shells were reported to cure edema (fluid retention), pulverized lizard heads were used to prevent hair loss. But the protein was discovered on a page next to Vogtherr's hair-growth recipes, suggesting that the user of the medical manual may have experimented with lizards as hair-care therapy. Maybe they stuck lizards in their hair, and the little fellows scurrying around stimulated hair growth, or even their poop just might have encouraged hir growth. Collagen peptides that may match a hippopotamus next to recipes discussing ailments of the mouth and scalp. Hippos were a popular curiosity across early modern Europe, and their teeth were thought to cure baldness, severe dental problems and kidney stones. The traces of hippo proteins may suggest that Vogtherr's readers struggled with tooth issues, as recipes to cure stinking breath, mouth ulcers and black teeth are dog-eared and annotated in the manual. Maybe a toothbrush would have helped stop rotten teeth, which gives you bad breath. The ole tooth brush also freshens your breath as we know today. Some folks brushed their teeth with grass stems, and at times charcoal from fires, even though it turned their mouth and teeth black. But then there is the trade off, stinky breath or black teeth. We may live in a modern world, but right now, because of ignorant non-believers in science, our medical treatments are reverting back into the stone age. No VO5 for shampoo, just head on down to the Portland zoo and pick yourself up some Hippo dung and have a good wash.
Tammy
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