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iceskatingmobsters · 2 years ago

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I have learned a lot of. weird shit. in the process of researching for this fic. for instance, before normal saline, the fucking fluid of choice to rehydrate someone who lost a dickload of blood was milk, fuck you if you were lactose intolerant. also sockeye salmon have eight different blood types and cows have at least fucking ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY

#emmy shut up #wilderness medicine is hard bc I'm used to all my fun tech at work so #I'm doing a lot of history of medicine and modern wilderness medicine/isolated first aid research #also hearthians evolved from fish/salamanders so had to research some weird shit for THAT physiology #fucking ended up being sorta useless anyways bc THEY BREATHE OXYGEN #WITH LUNGS #I do have a ~hearthian medical compendium~ going bc this will be an ongoing issue #maybe if it gets ridiculous enough I'll publish it for the masses #I still can't place their medical tech #like tektite has a prosthetic so they have the means to a) survive limb amputation traumatic or otherwise #and b) a good enough understanding of physiology to make a pretty kickass prosthetic that lets tektite continue their job in the mines #also there is a first aid kit and vague ~syringes~ on the ship #which like yes video game shorthand whatever I need every scrap I can get #they also have yknow FLIGHT CAPABILITY #I think it's time to look back at like nasa inventions that ended up being helpful in the public sphere #like velcro n shit that's the famous one. I know there were medical applications of nasa shit as well #but I don't remember which ones anymore #this is for like a 2k word fic by the way #because I hate myself

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