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Originally Posted by Willravel
So you're saying they would kill the man who introduced the idea of sanitary medicine about 700 years early—the man who would likely save many lives—just because of "witchcraft"? The church had way bigger fish to fry with the fast expansion of Islam. Actually, I'd probably enjoy more success with the Muslims, considering they developed the scientific method.
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Yep, I do. IMO, your biggest problem would be getting them to listen you. Nostradamus was a trained physician prior to his stint as a "fortune teller." He differed with some of the main medical practices of the time. For some crazy reason he thought keeping the cities clean, i.e. washing the shit out of the streets, was important. More important then say bleeding the evil out of people. He had serious issues with the church. By the time he started writing his prophecies he had to do so in "quatrains." Basically in code to keep him from being labeled a heretic. He knew the local lingo, the politics etc... and still had problems. He came along some five centuries later when "new ideas" were much more widely accepted. I think you show up and the minute you start talking, esp. going against the establishment, you're toast... literally.