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True, but even minimal changes will add up over 5-6000 years to something greatly different.

This. Also, without germ theory it is quite difficult to know what to treat with antibiotics (not to mention that the importance of quarantine, barrier care, sanitation etc. is needed for antibiotics to be effective). Without a decent chemical/pharmaceutical industry, you would also have...

In Sweden (where I live) the development was instead to regulate midwifery centrally, but then decentralize the actual practice (in the 18th century) with the goal of having one school-trained (then in special midwifery schools, now as an academic addition to a bachelor in nursing) midwife per...

Additional examples of why a general knowledge is important are cases of psychiastrists noticing that what was initatialy thought to be anorexia nervosa was actually Crohn's disease (coupled with a personality disorder), and diagnosing cases of fever of uncertain origin (is it infectious? is it...

As someone who works with this daily, I must react against this. Of course you treat suspected bacterial pneumonia (or other suspected infections) empirically before you get the species ientification and resistance profile back from the lab. But starting with broad-spectrum antibiotics is...

Since that would be an ancien régime-wank, it would. Honestly, I think it would though. Either because of a breakup of the HRE due to increasing tension between Prussia and Austria (and other?), or due to consilidation into a true nation-state (in which case imperial immediacy would simply be a...

Definitely true, but it would take some theological maneuvering to get around the Ramadan problem for these newly converted Norse and northern Russians. Fasting during daylight is one thing when you have approximately 12 hours of light, another when you have 20 (or midnight sun, if you go far...

I can definitely see Sweden demanding and getting the Åland islands. They are 95%+ swedish speaking, were traditionally considered part of the "land" of Svealand not Finland, and IOTL there were serious talks of giving them to Sweden after WW1 (where Sweden didn't even take part). But more than...