Hi all, I made a Twitter bot! Old Timey Doctor is dispensing health tips @HistoricalWebMD generated by influences ranging from Vesalius to the Victorians, and before and beyond!
I used the instructions linked in the syllabus, and am still ironing out the bot’s vocabulary.
(ETA:) Currently, the behind-the-scenes Google Doc looks like this:
Please share your favorite ailments, remedies, and/or corresponding pseudoscientific turns-of-phrase if you’d like to add to the algorithm — I look forward to gory suggestions!


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