#im going to have to use the mandarin translation... oh dear (i took 4 years of mandarin and forgot almost all of it)

[firestorm09890]

I'm reading this manga called Hengoku no Schwester and it's in 1500s Europe and there's this drug that makes people see miracles (they're actually just hallucinations) that I assumed was just a fantasy drug but this girl recognized several major facts bc her mother was a healer:

hallucinations are a symptom of Saint Anthony's Fire, aka ergotism

the establishment she was at had fields of rye they didn't appear to be using for anything

ergot was growing on them, which she knew was the cause of ergotism

if you synthesized ergot in a specific way, you could probably get it into a form that only causes the one symptom instead of all the other stuff

and then the narration box appears and says "there's no way Ella would know this, but this is how LSD would be made 400 years later"