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I recommend 1g of aspirin and a good bloodletting.
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That's for pansies.
You can buy warfarin off the shelf in the form out pest poison.
If you wanna set a world record for death by blood loss, that's the way to do it.
Remember kids:
All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.
—Paracelsus, 1538
Often condensed to "The dose makes the poison."
Also, death by warfarin overdose is a slow, bloody, painful way to go. Don't self medicate with fucking rat poison or anything stupid.
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Was there aspirin in the age of bloodletting?
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In the form of willow bark, yes, it was. Salicylic acid, the primary compound in aspirin, is also found in willow bark, which has been used therapeutically for 3500+ years.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjh.14520?sid=nlm%3Apubmed
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Nice knowledge! A helluva lot of alcohol was consumed then too, probably even “prescribed” to take with a tincture for whatever the person was suffering from. Willow bark + alcohol + blood letting likely killed more than a few.
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