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 swallow genitalia. Gout was advised to be treated with a decoction made from a boiled anthill. And the other treatment methods that existed in the past are simply hair-raising. 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 inquisitive quench their thirst for knowledge and be amazed at how many wild methods and practices are associated with the human body and health. The author, a curious German doctor, has collected astonishing facts about our body and cases from the history of medicine that can stump even scientists.