stackyFACTSMeasuring your fever used to literally involve a tube of booze. Before the standardization of toxic liquid metal mercury, the earliest sealed glass thermometers relied exclusively on heavily dyed alcohol expanding under heat, meaning early diagnostic medicine was basically just evaluating a miniature cocktail.
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