
Ancient Greek & Roman Medicine (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
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What Are the Reasons People Are Ill?
The idea that the normal state was to be ill means that everybody who created anything that we think about and respect from your Socrates to your other people with names like that. They were writing that stuff whilst weeping and bleeding and pussy and stinking. These illnesses are caused by things. Yeah, so they're living in these really close quarters which as you can imagine contagious diseases would have spread quickly. And there also wasn't waste removal. So people just threw their rubbish in the streets and it piled and as it sat there, it rotted. This was another place in which insects and vermin that transmitted diseases flourished.
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