2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Everyone knows that Nicolaus Copernicus was a famous astronomer, the discoverer of the heliocentric system. But few are aware that he was also a medical specialist.
For two years in a row, he studied medicine at a university in the Italian city of Padua. He never completed his education, but managed to put his knowledge into practice.
His uncle, who was a bishop, appointed him canon and at the same time commandant of Olishtin Castle. The fortress was besieged by knights of the Teutonic Order, and as the siege lasted a long time, an epidemic broke out.
The doctors in the fortress could not control the disease, Copernicus also got involved, but failed to cure the sick. Then he decided to make a scientific experiment, which is still used in the United States and England.
The scientist divided the people into several groups and agreed with them that each group should eat different things indicated by him. It turns out that it's not just people who don't eat bread who get sick.
But since this was the main food in the castle, there was no way to give it up. Further analysis of the situation showed that before eating the bread, people often dropped it and after shaking it off the dirt, ate it.
This is how the infection spread. To see the filth on the bread, Copernicus told everyone to grease their bread with butter. Thus, when someone dropped his piece of bread, the mud stuck to the butter and the man waved it.
The epidemic was contained, and the inhabitants of the fortress liked the butter and bread so much that they began to spread their bread constantly. After a while, some people just started putting pieces of meat or fish on the bread without smearing it with butter.
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