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  1. Re: Midieval meds.

    Place two drops of mercury in each eye, and call me in the morning if you can’t see!!

    1. Yeah, I remember reading about patients “being bled”.

      Can’t think of a better thing for a sick person to do than fighting off blood loss and infection.

      Damn demons.

    2. Leech therapy is still practised in many part of the world. They now call it ”social programs.”

  2. Brings new meaning to the Fuller Brush Co. and to not having a pot to piss in. Both are closely related terms.

  3. When Henry V was still Prince Henry, he was shot in the cheek with an arrow.
    The Surgeon devised a tool that he could insert into the wound. Using a screw, he was able to clamp down on the arrow head and withdraw it.
    He the cleaned the would, but kept it open so it would heal from the inside out. Henry Survived.
    They were not the primitives people think they were.
    https://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/prince-hals-head-wound-cause-and-effect/
    https://www.longwood.edu/news/2015/medieval-surgeons-surprisingly-skilled-in-healing/

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