The wards were drawn up by a schemer in the 12th century. Was shock a concept he was familiar with? (Gryffindor probably would have been, but Slytherin, I’m not so sure)
Agreed. Salazar Slytherin doesn’t seem like someone who has seen a terribly large amount of war, though—he’s more of the shadowy type.
That said, thinking and a bit of Google reminds me that Ch. 47 has Salazar Slytherin in a battle scene. I’m no longer confident of the correctness of this point.
The wards were drawn up by a schemer in the 12th century. Was shock a concept he was familiar with? (Gryffindor probably would have been, but Slytherin, I’m not so sure)
Possibly not. But as Hippocrates put it,
and so I suspect that trauma surgery was mature enough then that they had some concept of shock after seeing hundreds of people die from it.
Agreed. Salazar Slytherin doesn’t seem like someone who has seen a terribly large amount of war, though—he’s more of the shadowy type.
That said, thinking and a bit of Google reminds me that Ch. 47 has Salazar Slytherin in a battle scene. I’m no longer confident of the correctness of this point.