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  • booty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    So declared J. H. Kellogg, M. D., F. R. S. M., in an address last night in Denver.

    is this a message to the aliens? wtf are these letters

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      This was back in the day when you could just say you were a doctor and everyone was cool with that

      The more letters you stuck in your qualifications the better

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
        hexagon
        ·
        2 years ago

        well he did have some real Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit hours

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      2 years ago

      Frsm stands for Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. John Harvey Kellogg was actually a medical doctor with a real MD and was an frsm. Just goes to show how quacky doctors used to be. Some are still pretty quacky, but it's a lot better these days.