• Krono@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    But that explanation is lost to time.

    One translation I read suggested a probable explanation.

    Rasputin’s phone advice was the same as many modern quacks: keep the patient away from modern medicine and doctors.

    So the hemophiliac prince was no longer given his normal cocktail of drugs, which probably included a new medicine for the time: aspirin.

    Stop giving a blood thinner to a hemophiliac and his condition (temporarily) improved. The best explanation for the people at the time was “magic”.