Comments on: A Transfusion of Youth http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2067 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bay http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2067/comment-page-1#comment-418545 Bay Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:46:35 +0000 http://politedissent.com/?p=2067#comment-418545 Is the ancient race anything like the master race? Is the ancient race anything like the master race?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2067/comment-page-1#comment-418520 Anonymous Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:30:29 +0000 http://politedissent.com/?p=2067#comment-418520 Doesn't young Queen of all Africa look a lot like that Fletcher Hanks character Fantomah? I mean, without the skull-face, obviously. Doesn’t young Queen of all Africa look a lot like that Fletcher Hanks character Fantomah? I mean, without the skull-face, obviously.

]]> By: GW Crawford http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2067/comment-page-1#comment-418517 GW Crawford Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:17:35 +0000 http://politedissent.com/?p=2067#comment-418517 Isn't magic part of any routine in medical treatment? "Okay, Mrs. Smith, the lab work came back good...no problems there. But the pain in your side may be demons. I am going to schedule you for an ultrasound, a pneumomancy and a regimen of purging and cat-o-nine-tails. Oh, and watch out for the crack, your mom is still recovering you know!" Isn’t magic part of any routine in medical treatment?

“Okay, Mrs. Smith, the lab work came back good…no problems there. But the pain in your side may be demons. I am going to schedule you for an ultrasound, a pneumomancy and a regimen of purging and cat-o-nine-tails. Oh, and watch out for the crack, your mom is still recovering you know!”

]]> By: Marionette http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2067/comment-page-1#comment-418394 Marionette Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:13:23 +0000 http://politedissent.com/?p=2067#comment-418394 In the words of chief mugwump of Marvel, Joe Quesada "It's magic. We don't have to explain it." In the words of chief mugwump of Marvel, Joe Quesada “It’s magic. We don’t have to explain it.”

]]> By: Sean Duggan http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2067/comment-page-1#comment-418355 Sean Duggan Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:06:47 +0000 http://politedissent.com/?p=2067#comment-418355 People have often connoted blood with potentially carrying to soul of the user; one of those reasons that the principle of contagion works is that a blood sample carries a fragment of that person's essence. If you were to do a kind of magical apharesis on the blood, maybe you could remove that essence, transfuse it to someone else, and then pump it back in. Without that essence, a person might well lose their vitality. As for why this doesn't happen with minor blood loss? Maybe it's something exponential wherein, so long as you have some fraction of your blood, say half, you're still at 95% youth. I mean, massive blood loss people do look fairly haggard and sallow. Or, alternately, normally the human body's aura filters blood to remove the essence when we lose it normally. Setapa's blood simply bypasses the filtering. ^_^ Or, alternately, Setapa's just more than a bit vengeful, and her first act as she regains her youth is to cast the spells to age the donor. As for being white, wasn't that considered to be the superior blood-type at one point? Heck, the Aryans have at times been conjectured to be displaced Atlanteans. People have often connoted blood with potentially carrying to soul of the user; one of those reasons that the principle of contagion works is that a blood sample carries a fragment of that person’s essence. If you were to do a kind of magical apharesis on the blood, maybe you could remove that essence, transfuse it to someone else, and then pump it back in. Without that essence, a person might well lose their vitality. As for why this doesn’t happen with minor blood loss? Maybe it’s something exponential wherein, so long as you have some fraction of your blood, say half, you’re still at 95% youth. I mean, massive blood loss people do look fairly haggard and sallow. Or, alternately, normally the human body’s aura filters blood to remove the essence when we lose it normally. Setapa’s blood simply bypasses the filtering.

^_^ Or, alternately, Setapa’s just more than a bit vengeful, and her first act as she regains her youth is to cast the spells to age the donor. As for being white, wasn’t that considered to be the superior blood-type at one point? Heck, the Aryans have at times been conjectured to be displaced Atlanteans.

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