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These two doctors seem to have quite a different approach to healing this patient, who do you think has the better idea? :P
It's not completely uncommon to see non-human doctors or nurses caring for sick humans, and vice versa. Due to their different biology, it's almost impossible for diseases to infect both species, making them pretty much immune to each other's illnesses.
The Sendharian plague, also known as "Tears of Blood", is a highly contagious haemorrhagic disease that spread through the human population in Sirath, killing roughly half of the population in the colonies. While some among the Ajshar catfolk celebrated this event, seeing it as an intervention from the gods against the human invaders, many others took advantage of their immunity to the disease and helped their human neighbours, especially in communities where tensions among races were low.
Overall, the disease severely destabilised the human colonies in the area: humans believed non-humans were responsible for the devastation, while non-humans groups started planning to retake their former lands from human control...
It's not completely uncommon to see non-human doctors or nurses caring for sick humans, and vice versa. Due to their different biology, it's almost impossible for diseases to infect both species, making them pretty much immune to each other's illnesses.
The Sendharian plague, also known as "Tears of Blood", is a highly contagious haemorrhagic disease that spread through the human population in Sirath, killing roughly half of the population in the colonies. While some among the Ajshar catfolk celebrated this event, seeing it as an intervention from the gods against the human invaders, many others took advantage of their immunity to the disease and helped their human neighbours, especially in communities where tensions among races were low.
Overall, the disease severely destabilised the human colonies in the area: humans believed non-humans were responsible for the devastation, while non-humans groups started planning to retake their former lands from human control...
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I agree (it's pretty amazing that Four Humours-based medicine was popular for so long; I know it was inevitable that it would take a while to link micro-organisms to disease once microscopes were invented, but things like bleeding and purging people never seemed like they'd actually help).
I remember reading somewhere, back during the pandemic, that incense smoke kills airborne microbes and fungi, so it could actually work...to a very small degree that, most likely, wouldn't be enough to save the patient's life. But hey, at the end of the day, the cat would be more right than the plague doctor, if for the wrong reasons.
Well doomed is certain if he has this: https://www.cdc.gov/crimean-congo-h.....out/index.html No cure, spread by Ticks or contact with infected blood.
Well, there can be harm done with the incense. They probably didn't know about oxygen and how the body gets it, but introducing incense may rob this person opportunities for oxygen exchange and make things worse, although less than bloodletting.
Leeches, well, of it eats the microbes causing the disease, it might be good. But, well, other than holding and digesting the blood and actively increasing the bleeding....
Maybe they could try maggots....
Leeches, well, of it eats the microbes causing the disease, it might be good. But, well, other than holding and digesting the blood and actively increasing the bleeding....
Maybe they could try maggots....
Well maggots are still used to clean necrotic tissue nowadays, put I don't seem to see necrotic tissue here, though it's hard to say in black and white.
Perhaps put some Aloe Vera on his wound to help them cicatrize, at least that would help a bit. Or heck, even honey has cicatrizing value.
Perhaps put some Aloe Vera on his wound to help them cicatrize, at least that would help a bit. Or heck, even honey has cicatrizing value.
I read some science/history story book that had a chapter about him. Author didn't know what to make of him. Said something like "For chest pains he recommended a certain amount of foxglove gathered on the night of a New Moon. Silly.. but then you find that amount of foxglove contains the proper dose of digitalis for angina pectoris. And maybe gathering it on the night of the New Moon helps too..."
My first thought was "is there cross-species transfer of diseases?" Well, guess not, so it makes sense for one caring for the other without getting sick.
Also 50% is a LOT! And damn, yeah... "You are not sick, so you must have caused it!"... HAven't we heard that before. x.x
Also 50% is a LOT! And damn, yeah... "You are not sick, so you must have caused it!"... HAven't we heard that before. x.x
If the incense numbs the discomfort, I'd go with that. Get the poor man blasted out of his mind so he's not in pain anymore.
Also, I'm guessing the Ajshar aren't natural reservoirs of the disease. That'd really suck, to try to help the humans, only to wind up spreading it more.
Also, I'm guessing the Ajshar aren't natural reservoirs of the disease. That'd really suck, to try to help the humans, only to wind up spreading it more.
Medicine has truly come a long way... and people of the future will look at what we're doing today with the same horror as we do to the past ways.
As for the question: the Ashjar doctor, but only because he has a point: the pestilence is doing the bloodletting for them, and it still ain't helping.
As for the question: the Ashjar doctor, but only because he has a point: the pestilence is doing the bloodletting for them, and it still ain't helping.
This is a interesting discussion. Who medicine is better: the natural one, or the modern one?
# I like the plague doctor design. I would like see some anthro characters with clothing similar to that.
# I like the plague doctor design. I would like see some anthro characters with clothing similar to that.
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