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Cure-alls

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“Clyster, bleed, purge, repeat” could be a motto for many doctors throughout the ages who believed that bad blood, humor imbalance, or miasma were causing all illnesses known to humanity. Such treatments were used as universal cure-alls since the ancient times up to the late nineteenth century.
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6 June 2020 Veinity Fair Image Tagged bloodletting, enemas, history of medicine, leeches, Medicine, victorian

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