Wild Medicine. Shocking Operations and Facts from the History of Medicine

- Did the Great Fire of London really help deal with the plague?
- Why was arsenic so widely used in medicine?
- Why did ancient Egyptians apply moldy bread to wounds?
- Does chocolate cause pimples and how much chewing gum is... digested?
Medicine is not just scientific theories, healing practices, and great discoveries; it is part of the vast human experience, filled with its own oddities, myths, and misconceptions.
This book gathers the most bizarre yet real facts about the medical knowledge of the ancients, the hypotheses and experiments of past doctors, about medicines and procedures that took place in the history of medicine. But its author did not limit himself to stories from the past and included specific questions that pique the curiosity of modern people: for example, what causes warts, do people go crazy on a full moon, and what percentage of our brains do we use.