Curious medicine. Facts and stories that shock even doctors

For the treatment of gout, medieval doctors recommended to boil an anthill in water with its inhabitants for several hours, and then swim in this broth. Some, having learned about this, shuddered, presenting such a bath in paints, while others will ask: how do you know about it and what other wild methods of treatment existed in the past?
This book is for the latter. The German doctor Jurgen Brater has collected the most amazing cases associated with life and death, human health and diseases. He gives interesting and terrible examples from the history of medicine, talks about strange symptoms and rare diseases, and is also shared by the records of the endurance of the human body and other measured meanings associated with our bodies. If you do not know where a person in his stomach may have several kilograms of hair, what great doctors of the past especially loved to joke over their patients and students and how strange syndromes and symptoms have to study doctors - you definitely need to look into this book