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Curious Medicine. Facts and stories that shock even doctors

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Curious Medicine. Facts and stories that shock even doctors
9.99 €
To treat erectile dysfunction, doctors prescribed homemade "love drinks" made from pigeon heart and swallows' genitals. Gout was advised to be treated with a decoction made from boiled anthills. And from other methods of treatment in the past, just goosebumps on the skin. The history of medicine is full of creepy and ridiculous procedures, and today in this science is enough curiosities. This book will help the most curious to quench their thirst for knowledge and marvel at how many wild methods and practices are associated with the human body and health. The author, an inquisitive German doctor, has collected astonishing facts about our bodies and cases from the history of medicine that can baffle even scientists.
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