Thread by @cirnosad

Blood, Sweat and Tears. /📕

This is the opening image of the book.

Tobias Cohn of Venice published this disturbing depiction of the human body as a house with a series of filters back in 1708.

There will be a link to the book at the end of the thread.

The chapter of interest is "White Blood and Red Milk".

This details the ancient confusion of the origin of milk. Most societies assumed that mothers converted their blood into milk. I discussed this in part 3 of the thread "Red vs White" species.

The other chapters are also interesting, e.g. "blood as the source of life", but one thing at a time.

It's important to understand how ancient, medieval and renaissance thinkers understood milk and blood for numerous reasons. This book starts with a quote from the latter era:

"If we would define or describe what Milk is, it seemeth to be nothing but white blood", wrote the English physician and naturalist Thomas Moffett (1553–1604) in his dietetic rules for a healthy body. "If one examines
blood somewhat more closely, one will detect that it is almost nothing but milk [. . .] milk, just slightly coloured", -- Dutch physician Cornelis Bontekoe (1647–1685)

This was how milk and blood were understood from ancient times all the way to the 19th century. Our contemporary understand is vastly different to whatever satanic rituals would have formed in Europe over the last few centuries.

This is extremely important to understand.

In fact, this analogy was taken so seriously, that using inference about pregnancies and breast feeding, people assumed that the body must contain a "milk vein".

Most disturbingly in the previous chapter (blood as the source of life), the taste of blood was discussed.

It was described as "most excellent" and has a "smooth taste", which is reminiscent of rice and milk. I'm going to be sick reading this once again.

Anyway, here is the book.

I warn you, it's not for the faint of heart.



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