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* Proper sanitation and personal/public health practices, and their history. With that said, ideally, leeches should stay living in their bog homes, and patients should stay living with their blood remaining ''inside'' their bodies. Additionally, substances such as emeralds, mercury, and arsenic should ''never'' be consumed! However, sick individuals should really stay away from healthy individuals, to avoid making the healthy individuals become sick as well. | * Proper sanitation and personal/public health practices, and their history. With that said, ideally, leeches should stay living in their bog homes, and patients should stay living with their blood remaining ''inside'' their bodies. Additionally, substances such as emeralds, mercury, and arsenic should ''never'' be consumed! However, sick individuals should really stay away from healthy individuals, to avoid making the healthy individuals become sick as well. | ||
* Learning the [https://omniglot.com/writing/italian.htm Italian language] and general culture. This is to appear more Italian-like to onlookers despite my identity-concealing plague doctor garb. With that said, I would have actually been speaking the [https://omniglot.com/writing/venetian.htm ''Venetian'' language] back in the 17th century. Speaking of separating the sick from the healthy...did you know that the word and practice [https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-word-quarantine/ "quarantine"] is Venetian in origin? | * Learning the [https://omniglot.com/writing/italian.htm Italian language] and general culture. This is to appear more Italian-like to onlookers despite my identity-concealing plague doctor garb. With that said, I would have actually been speaking the [https://omniglot.com/writing/venetian.htm ''Venetian'' language] back in the 17th century. Speaking of separating the sick from the healthy...did you know that the word and practice [https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-word-quarantine/ "quarantine"] is Venetian in origin? | ||
* [https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2020-pandemic-meanings-masks-venetian-masks-historian-jeffrey-s-ravel Venetian Carnevale masks], such as my iconic [https://www.camacana.com/en-UK/plague-doctor-mask-history.php ''medico della peste'' mask]. Masks aren't just | * [https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2020-pandemic-meanings-masks-venetian-masks-historian-jeffrey-s-ravel Venetian Carnevale masks], such as my iconic [https://www.camacana.com/en-UK/plague-doctor-mask-history.php ''medico della peste'' mask]. Masks aren't just functional; they can be fun, too! | ||
*Wearing accessories and trinkets related to Italian superstitions about health and well-being. This is more for style and pops of color against my somber all-black garb more than anything. This includes a golden ''[http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/amulets/index.php/protection-2/index.html mano cornuto]'' from the south, a blue eye-charm against ''[http://www.tojdac.org/tojdac/VOLUME6-ISSUE2_files/tojdac_v06i2113.pdf il malocchio]'' from Turkey, and many colorful scarves to protect against that ''[https://www.italiantranslation-teaching.com/culture/italians-and-health-problems-il-colpo-daria/ colpo d'aria]''. | *Wearing accessories and trinkets related to Italian superstitions about health and well-being. This is more for style and pops of color against my somber all-black garb more than anything. This includes a golden ''[http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/amulets/index.php/protection-2/index.html mano cornuto]'' from the south, a blue eye-charm against ''[http://www.tojdac.org/tojdac/VOLUME6-ISSUE2_files/tojdac_v06i2113.pdf il malocchio]'' from Turkey, and many colorful scarves to protect against that ''[https://www.italiantranslation-teaching.com/culture/italians-and-health-problems-il-colpo-daria/ colpo d'aria]''. | ||
*The Near East and Far East's historical interactions with the Republic of Venice. I am especially interested in the nearby rivalling [https://bluebox.creighton.edu/demo/modules/en-boundless-old/www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-i-ancient-civilizations-enlightenment-textbook/the-renaissance-408/italy-during-the-renaissance-409/italian-trade-cities-218-13252/images/venice-and-the-ottoman-empire-crash-course-world-history-19/index.html Ottoman Empire] and the distant [https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-china/ming-dynasty#section_6 Chinese Empire], both areas that fellow Venetian [https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/marco-polo/ Marco Polo] had once travelled through back in the 13th century. Without the trade routes with such partners, Venice could not have had first-hand access to their exotic spices, delicious foodstuffs, and vibrant material goods, all which that I have come to enjoy so much whenever patient caseloads become low. ...Nor could have the Republic potentially imported deadly plagues that I have come to detest so much whenever patient caseloads become high, either. | *The Near East and Far East's historical interactions with the Republic of Venice. I am especially interested in the nearby rivalling [https://bluebox.creighton.edu/demo/modules/en-boundless-old/www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-i-ancient-civilizations-enlightenment-textbook/the-renaissance-408/italy-during-the-renaissance-409/italian-trade-cities-218-13252/images/venice-and-the-ottoman-empire-crash-course-world-history-19/index.html Ottoman Empire] and the distant [https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-china/ming-dynasty#section_6 Chinese Empire], both areas that fellow Venetian [https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/marco-polo/ Marco Polo] had once travelled through back in the 13th century. Without the trade routes with such partners, Venice could not have had first-hand access to their exotic spices, delicious foodstuffs, and vibrant material goods, all which that I have come to enjoy so much whenever patient caseloads become low. ...Nor could have the Republic potentially imported deadly plagues that I have come to detest so much whenever patient caseloads become high, either. | ||
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*Calligraphy. I don't want my handwriting to be as ''brutto'' as many modern doctors' could be in my own medical occupation's ample notetaking. | *Calligraphy. I don't want my handwriting to be as ''brutto'' as many modern doctors' could be in my own medical occupation's ample notetaking. | ||
*Gardening and herbalism. My persona first name being almost identical to that of a specific [http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/66/113/frameset.html historical] [https://bhma.info/indications/stress-and-anxiety/valerian/ calming] [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/expert-answers/valerian/faq-20057875 anti-plague] [https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/valeriana-officinalis/ herb] isn't just coincidental. | *Gardening and herbalism. My persona first name being almost identical to that of a specific [http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/66/113/frameset.html historical] [https://bhma.info/indications/stress-and-anxiety/valerian/ calming] [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/expert-answers/valerian/faq-20057875 anti-plague] [https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/valeriana-officinalis/ herb] isn't just coincidental. | ||
*Italian food culture and cuisine. After all, plagues and maladies in general affect malnourished bodies the worst. The | *Italian food culture and cuisine. After all, plagues and maladies in general affect malnourished bodies the worst. The 1620s northern Italian famine is why so many especially perished from the subsequent 1630 plague. This Italian cuisine would ideally be created as a result of the aforementioned gardening and herbalism activities. And no, I do ''not'' consider the historical yet somewhat related [https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/theriac Venice Treacle] recipe a "cuisine"! | ||
*Aromatherapy and perfumery. This is mainly to cover up any sickening bad <s> | *Aromatherapy and perfumery. This is mainly to cover up any sickening bad <s>miasmas</s> smells out there over anything else. | ||
*Mixology? Historically-based, of course. Herbal ingredients combined with alcohol did used to be a form of medicine back in the day. In a way, alcoholic mixed drinks do still help us feel better even in modern times, don't they? | *Mixology? Historically-based, of course. Herbal ingredients combined with alcohol did used to be a form of medicine back in the day. In a way, alcoholic mixed drinks do still help us feel better even in modern times, don't they? | ||
*Overall, in between dealing with disease and its [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74775-6 loathsome] [https://ehes.org/wp/EHES_106.pdf consequences] on society, I am here to make friends and have fun. ☺ | *Overall, in between dealing with disease and its [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74775-6 loathsome] [https://ehes.org/wp/EHES_106.pdf consequences] on society, I am here to make friends and have fun. ☺ | ||