@textfiles Absolutely incredible. Among other things, it was worth it just for this one-star yelp review of my home town:
“Formerly the chief town in this province was called Annapolis-Royal; but, though once the capital, it is a small place, wretchedly fortified, worse built, and very thinly inhabited. There have been stationed here, ever since the reign of Queen Anne, the remains of a regiment very little recruited.”
It’s been a great way for me to get old books for my genealogy research. It’s amazing what you can find that would have been nearly impossible back in the day.
@textfiles@BlippyTheWonderSlug Struggled through a bit of it. Old school writing a bit hard to follow. Was there something in particular that you found interesting or insightful?
@juergen_hubert@textfiles
We can learn quite an amount of their thinking, reasoning... I have several 16th century, interest documents. Most I sold because of the health hazards; ppl rarely washed, didn't have notions of cleanliness, had many illness like Crosne...
@uastronomer@textfiles
People used to go to the ALCHEMIST, known today as the pharmacist. At that time they made potions by creating chemical reactions between plants: only the rich had physicians who killed by their bleeding the demons out of the patient.
Humours, slimes & venoms were used.
Here in the deep center of france, I've seen potions with toads or vipers in alcohol, people going to see the Sage (witch) for treating coughs/bronchitis/tuberculosis by drinking boiled snail slime
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