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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't know if anyone else has said it, but the belief that human illness and all that were caused by an imbalance of four bodily humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm. It's an old belief where the earliest I found it being practiced was around 400 B.C.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The geocentric theory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Traveling faster than a horse is harmful.The body waa not made for that speed.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

if it as wrong, it wasn’t wisdom, just a belief.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lmao at the brilliant wordsmiths downvoting this literally tautological and necessary truth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

that night air is bad for you.

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