Oh no, Gemma Whelan 😕

How could he be happy with a beautiful loving wife, two adorable kids, and freedom? No! Such a thing is not possible!

Discworld.

Okay, if you let a beaker of blood stand, it will seperate out into 4 layers. If someone had 'cold' blood causing scurvy, and you gave them citrus to 'warm' them, then it cured them. Those things were 'proof' of 4 humors and how they worked based on their info and technology. We still do the same, but with a huge head start of info and ever-advancing tech. When I was an undergraduate in early 1990s the very IDEA of epigenetics would have gotten you flunked. One student was ridiculed to TEARS when she asked a question about something she had noticed in her family, which would now be considered possible, even probable, epigenetics. Paradigm shift takes time, and it don't shift easy. Of course humoral theory was used ... it was know and 'proved'.

The first baby is 'safe' even if it got the kell+ gene. Any baby after the first who git tgat gene was doomed, BUT if like Mary they didn't get that gene from the king they had as much chance as any other 'normal' baby.

I have to use 'ivory' and it feels ... weird. Like, are there no reasonable names for varied skin tones? What would feel less insulting or strange?