Curious Medicine. Facts and Stories That Shock Even Doctors

To treat erectile dysfunction, doctors prescribed men "love potions" made at home from pigeon hearts and the sexual organs of swallows. Gout was advised to be treated with a broth made from boiled anthills. And other treatment methods from the... past are simply chilling. The history of medicine is filled with creepy and absurd procedures, and even today there are plenty of curious phenomena in this science. This book will help the most curious satisfy their thirst for knowledge and be astonished at how many wild methods and practices are associated with the human body and health. The author, an inquisitive German doctor, collected amazing facts about our body and cases from the history of medicine that are capable of leaving even scientists puzzled.