Alchemists, you were right. It is magic.

Me and my bro in the 19th century inhaling and ingesting various chemicals just for fun

- Lucifer (from da Bible) talking about learning science in the chemistry book I’m reading

(Random microscope photo for size, etc.)

The Encyclopedia Americana, "Acute Tuberculosis", 1949

i have read multiple posts and pieces of fiction that imply people would instantly connect microscopic organisms to disease, but it did take about 200 years between knowing about bacteria and experimentally connecting them to disease as a causative agent (germ theory was formalized late 19th century, although people were coming up with ideas about invisible-to-the-naked-eye contagions well before that). meanwhile rich people were looking at stuff under a microscope as a fun hobby for decades before germ theory. the issue is not convincing a regency era person that microbes exist. it's talking them down from how dare you say blorbo from my slides could hurt me???

Opium poppy (papaver somniferum) by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1575.

Every day, great things are happening on Portland street signs

Heaven forbid a protein gets a little creative these days!! #justprionthings