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Average rating: 3.34 · 839 ratings · 122 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Strange Medicine: A Shockin...
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“By the seventh century, eminent physicians were arguing over the best cure for lovesickness. All agreed, however, that keeping the brain sufficiently moist was absolutely critical. To achieve the desired humidity, doctors would force a lovesick man to smell the menstrual cloth of his beloved or inhale the stinking embers of her burned feces.”
― Nathan Belofsky, Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
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“A doctor would tie a leech to some silk thread and lower it down his patient’s throat. When the leech became heavy with blood, he’d reel it in like a fish. To bleed a man’s testicles, doctors often applied, over the course of several days, a hundred or more leeches.”
― Nathan Belofsky, Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
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“Ferrand also suggested shaving down an overly long clitoris and burning a woman’s thighs with acid. If a case of lovesickness was so urgent that it threatened to turn into lycanthropy (werewolfism), he recommended bleeding the veins of the arms until complete heart failure ensued, then cauterizing the front of the head with a searing hot iron.”
― Nathan Belofsky, Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
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