Tom Reiss Zitate

Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation.

Tom Reiss

Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Ärzte des 18. Jahrhunderts verschrieben für fast alles Zuckerpillen: Herzprobleme, Kopfschmerzen, Konsum, Wehen, Wahnsinn, Alter und Blindheit. Daher bedeutete der französische Ausdruck "wie ein Apotheker ohne Zucker" jemanden in einer völlig hoffnungslosen Situation.

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