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Re: enough with the what's (not) on-topic discussions already



On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:03:20 +0800
Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:

> > L'hôpital qui se moque de la charité?
> >
> >  
> 
> I think that, in one of the sciences, was a "L'Hopital's Rule", but,
> do not remember to what it applied, or, what was the rule.
> 
> Otherwise, I wonder whether the above, has something to do with
> mosques and charities and hospitals?

L'Hopital and La Charité were the two main Paris hospitals in the middle-ages, the one run by the city, and the other by the Church; and both were just equally bad in how fast their patients died off.... 
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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