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Nikita's avatar

Thank you so much for this article. I am

Watching the first ever k-drama that takes a closer look at eunuch and how they were castrated and I was in shock!! Hence, I had to search if that was true or not

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LA Seoulite's avatar

Haha... You're welcome. Thank you for searching it up and reading about it. That's what I'm here for...

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Ms. Kathy's avatar

Wowza! Interesting read.

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JMT Creative Arts's avatar

What a quirky history.

감사해요

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LA Seoulite's avatar

Yeah, these are kinda fun to learn about. What amazes me is that the "doctors" knew exactly what they were doing, and that it had to do with hormonal production and control.

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JMT Creative Arts's avatar

So I couldn't quickly find anything about, if and how early "doctors" understood about hormones but I did come across this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955324/

In which the authors state, "The biological effects of the testes and testosterone are known since antiquity." and "...quite early in the history of mankind, the effects of testosterone or rather their lack, became known and history is full of examples how this knowledge was applied."

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JMT Creative Arts's avatar

"Doctors" in the Joseon Period seemed pretty well informed through observation. They seemed to have known how to 'vaccinate' for smallpox back in the Joseon Period according to the story in Rookie Historian (which of course is a fictional story). However, there is historical evidence for this premise. My quick google search brought up:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23388487/

https://www.jtraumainj.org/journal/view.php?number=1218

https://www.ecevr.org/Synapse/Data/PDFData/9995CEVR/cevr-1-9.pdf

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