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Tag: Medical History

Bloodletting, Mummy Powder and a Whale Hotel: Absurd Medical Practices of the Past

Absurd Medicine — The Absurdists S2 E9 with Marlo Anderson and Justin Cancilliere

Bloodletting for fevers, holes drilled in skulls and powdered mummy for wounds: medicine’s most absurd past cures.

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