out! out damn spot!

There was a tumblr post I saw a while back that talked about how we used to dismiss medieval treatments as superstition. "Rub egg shells and honey on boils and say twelve Hail Marys, lol, poor dumb primitives without antibiotics." And then people started actually looking at the treatments and figured out, well egg shells are a mild abrasive and honey is an anti-bacterial, and you would need to do that for about four minutes (or whatever) for efficacy and a dozen Hail Marys is just about right.

Now every time I see people talking about singing This Corrosion or Barbie Girl or Happy Birthday or reciting Shakespeare I think about that post.