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health and medicine
Unless you,re called WEIRDO MCBEARDO, you are very unlikely to actually ENJOY going to visit a doctor.
It might be necessary, and you might feel better afterwards, but it’s not the kind of thing you do as a FuN HoBbY.
Docs tend to poke you and prod you, shine lights in your earholes to see if you have a brain, peer up your nose with a TeLeScOpE, make you say “aaaaahhhh” while pushing a lollipop stick down your throat and generally squeeze bits that make you scream “OoOoYaH!”.
Say aaahh!
FANCY THAT!
Surgery in ancient Rome was usually for soldiers on the battlefields, but during the rule of Julius Caesar, it was also law that any pregnant mother who was dead or dying should be cut open to try to save the baby. Some people think this is where we get the word "caesarean" from.
But if you think you’ve got it bad, at least you don’t have to kIsS MuLeS or have a bath in cAbBaGeY WeE. That’s the kind of thing you might have come across in ancient Rome. More on that later . . .
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