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Medicine actually has some pretty neat inspirations. First off, her name (メディスン メランコリー / Medicine Melancholy) is a direct reference to American author Ray Bradbury's short story, "A Medicine For Melancholy". In fact, her whole design seems to be connected to that story so I'll start with that first. In the story, a girl named Camillia Wilkes falls deathly ill and is unable to get better. Her family tries to find a cure and goes through many lists of medicinal herbs and flowers including stone parsley, opobalsam, and pontic valerian as suggested by a Gypsy. The Gypsy suggests that Camillia has melancholia (depression). Then, a dustman comes towards the family and tells them that they must leave her out on a night of a full moon. The family obliges and the girl is left outside at night under the full moon. The dustman comes to her playing a lute and Camillia doesn't seem to recognize him. The dustman calls himself Bosco after the famous Italian priest, Saint Bosco, who roamed the streets caring for homeless children. He then has sex with her. Now morning, the girl murmurs in her sleep, "a medicine...for melancholy" and wakes up just as her parents approach her. She seems to be ecstatic, rosy-cheeked and playful. She asks them to dance with her much to their disbelief. The story ends. Okay, so there's A LOT to explain here. First of all, the word "melancholy" is derived from one of the four humors (four bodily fluids that classical and medieval people believed existed and influenced health). The four humors are black bile (melan chole; melancholic), yellow bile (xanthe cole; choleric), phlegm (phlegma; phlegmatic), and blood (haima; sanguine). An excess of melan chole (literally "black bile") is thought to make a person depressive, this is where there word "melancholy (sad, depressed)" originates. According to Greek and medieval sources, in order to stop depressive symptoms one must empty the body of black bile or balance it out with the opposite, blood (sanguine) (note that sanguine now means "happy" in English). In order to raise sanguine levels one must dance, listen to music, or have sex. This is what happens to Camillia in the story as the dustman plays the lute for her and then has sex with her. She wakes up happy and wants to dance with her parents, cured of her melancholia by making her sanguine levels go up. This is tied with full moon symbolism, as the Greek titan of the moon Selene is associated with sex and love. The humors are Greek concepts but are suspected to come from Egypt and the story makes various references to Egypt, Egyptian medicine, and mummies. The Egyptian goddess Isis became associated with the moon thanks to connections with the Greek Artemis and another Egyptian goddess, Bastet, the deity of fertility. In both Greek and Egyptian cultures the moon was connected to femininity and sex. Thus, when the dustman suggests that Camillia be put under the light of the full moon he is saying that she should present herself (for sex). He calls the coming full moon night "Bosco's eve" and when he visits her in moonlight he calls himself Bosco. Bosco was a Italian saint that roamed the streets of Italy, helping poor children. The dustman calls himself a saint because he's about help cure Camillia of her melancholia by having sex with her in the middle of the night. The allusion is perfect because Bosco was also known to care for those of poor health with herbs and other technique, he could be considered a sort of travelling doctor. Camillia calls the dustman himself a doctor during their encounter. With that out of the way, the cure for melancholia is revealed to be the moon or, in other words, sex. The medicine for melancholy is love.

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Medicine actually has some pretty neat inspirations. First off, her name (メディスン メランコリー / Medicine Melancholy) is a direct reference to American author Ray Bradbury's short story, "A Medicine For Melancholy". In fact, her whole design seems to be connected to that story so I'll start with that first. In the story, a girl named Camillia Wilkes falls deathly ill and is unable to get better. Her family tries to find a cure and goes through many lists of medicinal herbs and flowers including stone parsley, opobalsam, and pontic valerian as suggested by a Gypsy. The Gypsy suggests that Camillia has melancholia (depression). Then, a dustman comes towards the family and tells them that they must leave her out on a night of a full moon. The family obliges and the girl is left outside at night under the full moon. The dustman comes to her playing a lute and Camillia doesn't seem to recognize him. The dustman calls himself Bosco after the famous Italian priest, Saint Bosco, who roamed the streets caring for homeless children. He then has sex with her. Now morning, the girl murmurs in her sleep, "a medicine...for melancholy" and wakes up just as her parents approach her. She seems to be ecstatic, rosy-cheeked and playful. She asks them to dance with her much to their disbelief. The story ends. Okay, so there's A LOT to explain here. First of all, the word "melancholy" is derived from one of the four humors (four bodily fluids that classical and medieval people believed existed and influenced health). The four humors are black bile (melan chole; melancholic), yellow bile (xanthe cole; choleric), phlegm (phlegma; phlegmatic), and blood (haima; sanguine). An excess of melan chole (literally "black bile") is thought to make a person depressive, this is where there word "melancholy (sad, depressed)" originates. According to Greek and medieval sources, in order to stop depressive symptoms one must empty the body of black bile or balance it out with the opposite, blood (sanguine) (note that sanguine now means "happy" in English). In order to raise sanguine levels one must dance, listen to music, or have sex. This is what happens to Camillia in the story as the dustman plays the lute for her and then has sex with her. She wakes up happy and wants to dance with her parents, cured of her melancholia by making her sanguine levels go up. This is tied with full moon symbolism, as the Greek titan of the moon Selene is associated with sex and love. The humors are Greek concepts but are suspected to come from Egypt and the story makes various references to Egypt, Egyptian medicine, and mummies. The Egyptian goddess Isis became associated with the moon thanks to connections with the Greek Artemis and another Egyptian goddess, Bastet, the deity of fertility. In both Greek and Egyptian cultures the moon was connected to femininity and sex. Thus, when the dustman suggests that Camillia be put under the light of the full moon he is saying that she should present herself (for sex). He calls the coming full moon night "Bosco's eve" and when he visits her in moonlight he calls himself Bosco. Bosco was a Italian saint that roamed the streets of Italy, helping poor children. The dustman calls himself a saint because he's about help cure Camillia of her melancholia by having sex with her in the middle of the night. The allusion is perfect because Bosco was also known to care for those of poor health with herbs and other technique, he could be considered a sort of travelling doctor. Camillia calls the dustman himself a doctor during their encounter. With that out of the way, the cure for melancholia is revealed to be the moon or, in other words, sex. The medicine for melancholy is love.

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