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greatgefilte posted How to unlearn pain, an interesting exploration of psychotherapy or talk therapy focusing on hidden, powerful emotions for some types of pain, including a look at "This Might Hurt, a film about a radical treatment for chronic pain."
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We don't know for certain if the Gas! GAS! in Wilfred Owen's devastating poem was chlorine, but we do know that it can kill and maim in the way he described. But when his poem was written, chlorine had already begun to play a completely different, quietly heroic role, going on to save hundreds of millions of lives over the course of the 20th century.
Check out clawsoon's great, in-depth post "Chlorine probably saved your life today"
What happened when someone in the Middle Ages got pink eye, or someone in Elizabethan England got athlete's foot or crotch rot? Did the infections just hang around forever? Was everyone just infected with this type of stuff? (It's pretty well-known that basically everyone had lice and fleas, I believe.)
In Ask Me: Minor infections in the days before anti-biotics or anti-fungals? Many good answers, and Jane the Brown brings the serious history again.
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