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Old Time Doctors Torture Patients With “Remedies”
A historical account details eighteenth century medical practice treating illness with bleeding, burning, and forbidding air or water in sickrooms. It cites fevers as indiscriminate “fevers,” long heavy banquets, and doctors pushing wine and lavish regimens, with ridicule of excessive enervation and fashionable cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Tall
Montesquieu
Walpole
Voitaire
Tronchin
Cheyne
Garth
Brown
Brvere
Bustering