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A term I haven't heard since reading All Creatures Great And Small, where the local knackerman c. 1930 was described as a walking example of the hygiene hypothe
by hprotagonist 6y ago
A term I haven't heard since reading All Creatures Great And Small, where the local knackerman c. 1930 was described as a walking example of the hygiene hypothesis: surrounded by dead animals, and in the peak of health.
- m463 6y agoIsn't the whole domesticated animals thing that diseases only rarely cross animals to humans? I suspect if he had dealt with chimpanzees if the organisms would have been more dangerous. as to dealing with humans -- infant mortality was cut way down when doctors cleaned up between autopsies and delivering babies. It was a hard battle ("why should I clean up only to get messy again.")
- jpm_sd 6y agoJust started reading these books aloud to my children. IIRC, a particularly vivid passage involves the Mallock children playing with some tubercular lungs, their rosy cheeks aglow
- hprotagonist 6y agoyeah, that's the one. Toddler sucking his thumb in a pile of bone meal...