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Why did hospitals strictly ban surgeons from wearing white uniforms in the early 1900s, replacing them with green scrubs?
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Ancient anatomy was basically guesswork. To cure blindness, they squashed a pig's eye and poured the gooey remains directly into the patient's ear, expecting…
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We casually joke about feeling nostalgic, but how did doctors actually treat "nostalgia" in the 17th century?
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How did the medical community officially recognize the physician who invented the ice-pick lobotomy?
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In 1726, an English woman named Mary Toft convinced top royal doctors that she was giving birth to what?
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Ancient Egyptian women genuinely utilized fermented crocodile feces as a primary form of birth control, mixing the horrific reptile dung with honey and sour…
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