Wild medicine. Shocking operations and facts from the history of medicine

- Did the Great London Fire really help to cope with the plague?
- Why was arsenic so widely used in medicine?
- Why did the ancient Egyptians apply moldy bread to the wound?
- Does the chocolate cause and how much chewing gum is digested?
Medicine is not only scientific theories, therapeutic practice and great discoveries, it is part of a huge human life, which had its own oddities, myths and errors.
This book contains the most bizarre and, nevertheless, real facts about the medical knowledge of the ancients, about the hypotheses and experiments of doctors of the past, about drugs 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 issues that cause curiosity in modern people: for example, why warts appear, whether people go crazy in the full moon and what percentage of the brain we use