• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Wasn’t she close to Rasputin because he claimed he could cure her son’s hemophilia?

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      22 days ago

      Yep. The main thing he did was take her son off of aspirin whenever he was around.

      Aspirin worsens bleeding.

      So he had an effect simply by being an anti-medicine quack, and claiming to work miracles.