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The Apothecary Diaries Ep 7: Unedited Access (Patreon)

Published:
2025-09-30 23:00:10
Edited:
2025-10-08 19:31:35
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2026-09

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Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy your unedited access to my detailed analysis of the Apothecary Diaries episode 7. What a heartwarming episode for Maomao to finally go home, with a major hint of mystery surrounding her dad's background...

WHO IS HER FATHER?! He definitely worked in the palace before, with my prediction at the end of the episode.

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dylan

you will always catch me being first to these videos

Mike

The explanation of his demeanor of why he was so casual with Mamao's return is explained a bit better in season 2

Jan Negrey

So. Fingerprints and Forensics of Fingerprints (Dactyloscopy) are bit distinct. Depending on the place in the world, people knew about fingerprints for a long time. And they used this, just like Mao Mao is talking about. For example she is talking about putting powder on the container that you don't want other people to touch. Shape of prints will be different between her father, her and someone else. This is a technique that is very old. When it comes to identifying specific person from specific finger print, using database and sorting methods according to shapes of various lines and various smaller shapes on specific finger as well as making such database easy to manage - that is 19th Century. France, UK, US, Argentina and others had great contributions towards it on National and International scale. For smaller scales it was possible even in 18th Century or before that. I think in British occupied India there is known first use, though without scientific background - it was just a hunch and a bit of psychological trick. I think there owner of big agricultural... plantation (just in case, I don't think it was chattel slavery, but then again, there was probably mixture of servants and indentured servants) and some other manufacturing place, didn't like how he had hundreds or thousands of servants he had to pay and how often there was fraud. People who claimed to be other people often took pay for them and when those people came for their wages, money was gone. And the owner did study fingerprints. It was his hobby. So every servant had to give him a fingerprint and every person that took wages had to sign it with fingerprints. Since servants now knew that the master knew their fingerprints, they stopped stealing from others. Whether he had the capability to check and prove who is who is questionable. This was at the end of 18th Century or the beginning of 19th. On the other hand, first murder case solved with fingerprints was in 1892. Fingerprints were adopted as a supplementary identification, to existing anthropometric system, which was in use since mid 19th century. However while anthropometrics was good, measuring a person often took hours and incredible precision required - required VERY well trained personnel. Fingerprint analysis therefore started to take precedence. Because it was easier. Remember that the real work in making it feasible was two folds: 1. Proving that chances of 2 people having the same fingerprints were exceedingly small (even initial calculations, though a bit flawed, were showing that maybe there is a chance that there is a pair of people on Earth sharing same fingerprints. Maybe. For 1 finger, not all 10. And later this was improved. 2. Just like with anthropometrics, you needed specific system of finding this finger prints in physical database. Even within one country (France was actually last to adopt it among powerful countries, because Bertillon that invented anthropometrics was still alive and he hated dactyloscopy) - let's imagine that you work in Paris for Surete Nationale. And you get a telegram with numbers from Police in Lyon. You need to take this numbers, run to archive and there, based on this numbers, you need to identify if you have a card that has the same characteristics. Then you need to take this card out, read the fingerprint yourself to confirm that it has the same characteristics. This should ideally take less than 15 minutes, even though your archive has few millions of physical fingerprints. Then you can send telegram to Lyon Police, with everything that is known about the person who's fingerprints you have (what name did they give and their anthropometric information if there was one). One of the reasons why dactyloscopy was initially used was to supplement anthropometrics. So if you had the data on that you'd send it to Lyon Police. Then they would use the fact that fingerprints have the same characteristics (for example same number of specific shapes in each quadrant of the finger) - which might give them reasonable suspicion that the person has criminal record or at least had their fingerprints taken by Police previously. Then they could use anthropometrics to validate that they indeed have the same person. Then they would be certain and if for example name was different or the person claimed to be someone else - then in the most expensive scenario, they would be transported to Paris and they would check them there. They could also directly compare all of the fingerprints from that person to the card in their archive. If they had a match there (and anthropometrics) then math said that they had to be the same person. Something like 1 in few trillions chance that they have a mistake. After sometime Police noticed that fingerprints were almost never wrong. And better compared to anthropometrics (which involved for example measuring persons height to 1/10th of millimeter accuracy), because the precision of measurement in the latter required gigantic amount of training. And wasn't viable until persons stopped growing up and also didn't start to shrivel. Other medical conditions, could throw off measurements (height wasn't the most important one - they knew what they were doing). So you had much simpler method to use, that could be transmitted through telegraph as easily while anthropometric data, while giving you the same or better accuracy. Also it didn't require big specialist rooms full of specialist equipment that was super expensive. And it was also immune to changes that came with age (though anthropometrics could deal with elderly - assuming very highly trained staff. Though it could be very uncomfortable). And of course last but not least, fingerprints could be used to identify people who were on the crime scene. However that last part is only an addition to the problem with quick identification of suspects. Dactyloscopy was first and foremost a way to deal with several million people who were alive and in their lifetime were for some reason printed. Of course the card would also have information about what crimes they were suspected of and what (if any) time in jail/prison they spent. What was their sentence for and how long. I'm talking about this, because science necessary for dactyloscopy didn't exist until 1830's and wasn't used until 1860's. However Mao Mao didn't need it here. She didn't even say anything about identifying people from it. She was guessing who persons were based on her knowledge of real palace. And she didn't know who the other person is. Technically it would be possible to print everyone in the rear palace and for Mao Mao, to go and by hand, with microscope or looking glass, check each fingerprint for match. However this type of analysis would take weeks at least. It would also work, because "suspects" were limited among of people. For rear palace and just in case for military officers, dancers etc. - 5000 people. Verdict would also rest on the fact that the person poisoning HAD to be from this limited set of suspects and the real culprit would be the only one, whose fingerprints matched. So it wouldn't be scientifically based. It would be based on finding only one person with matching fingerprints among those who could be guilty.

Krisko94

If I go to bed at 10pm, and wake up at 715, thats usually a great night sleep.

Psychotherapist Reacts

Your deep knowledge is appreciated! I didn’t know the distinction, cool knowledge

Krisko94

Usually its 1045-645 though which is...adequate lol.

EHelström

I rarely sleep for longer than 4 or 5 hours, even on weekends when my responsibilities are at their lowest.

Jan Negrey

Here it isn't explained where Mao Mao gets that knowledge from. But it is explained by that point in LN (or at least hinted at). Yes, her father is amazing, but Mao Mao has other ways too. For now I won't say a thing and I will wait until the show drops the slightest bit of hint. Or unless you want to know and say so.

Psychotherapist Reacts

It’s fine, I’ll figure it out as the show goes on. Many questions I ask are simply me thinking out loud haha

Jeffry L Manion

Bullying is always wrong. I know that this is a modern outlook, but I can't divorce my feelings about something I despise. Little heavy for this discussion, but you asked. I like this content so thanks.

Psychotherapist Reacts

I agree. Bullying is definitely wrong especially from the people that they’re supposed to look out for and trust as inner circle, plus she’s a child!

Southern Bookworm

To answer your question about Lishu, I absolutely have sympathy towards her and think the bullying is beyond the pale. Admittedly being a LN reader I know more about the inbetween time before Lishu returned to the rear palace and why she did but no spoilers are needed to explain why she deserves sympathy. It is already been told that she was given to the old emperor at age nine, something she would have had absolutely no say in purely her family trying to better their position. At fourteen she still would have no say due to her age and gender plus if she was cherished then she would not have been sent to a pedophilic emperor in the past, MaoMao’s reaction to the age the empress dowager gave birth is a key indicator of that likely being true. I am not sure how you could have empathy with Lishu short of being a child bride survivor, that kind of scenario is so foreign to western life in general all I can have is sympathy.

Psychotherapist Reacts

100% agree, let alone she’s a child getting bullied from adults who are supposed to protect her with their lives