Every process and technical gesture described in the work.
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In The Apothecary Diaries, a body is examined. We explain autopsy, post-mortem signs, and the birth of forensic medicine.
In The Apothecary Diaries, Lady Fonmin's luxurious honeys come from a beekeeping family. Colony structure, castes, varietal honeys, and the history of beekeeping.
Before antisepsis and anesthesia, caesarean section almost always killed the mother. We explain why, and what changed everything in the 19th century.
In The Apothecary Diaries, Maomao reads Lihaku's body without him saying a word. We explain clinical semiology and the art of diagnosis by observation.
Revealing fingerprints with flour. We explain the chemistry of latent prints and the history of dactyloscopy, born in ancient China.
In The Apothecary Diaries, an ointment gets prepared. We explain galenics: how a medicine's form determines how an active ingredient is absorbed.
Making someone vomit to clear a poison: an old intuition that modern medicine has largely abandoned. Risks, contraindications, the history of ipecac.
In The Apothecary Diaries, Maomao hides a message in alcohol revealed by flame. We explain why fruit juice, milk, or alcohol brown before the paper does.
In The Apothecary Diaries, Maomao diagnoses crumbly paper. We explain papermaking, cellulose, and Cai Lun's invention.
In The Apothecary Diaries, Maomao distills roses. We explain steam distillation, enfleurage, terpenes, and why natural perfume costs so much.
Partly: communal hot baths clean and relax, but spread fungi and bacteria and can make blood pressure crash. What history and physiology show.
In The Apothecary Diaries, a contagious patient is isolated. The history of quarantine, fomites, and isolation long before germs were understood.
In The Apothecary Diaries, Maomao dates a batch of seaweed using her knowledge of brining. We explain how salt preserves food, and why it eventually fails.
Rarely: arsenic and tetrodotoxin have no smell or color. What imperial food tasters could catch, why silver failed, and what The Apothecary Diaries gets right.
In The Apothecary Diaries, Maomao is recovering from fifteen stitches. The history of suture thread, from Egyptian linen to resorbable catgut and synthetic thread.