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Next time you're under anesthesia, thank an Andalusian genius from the year 1000. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi basically wrote the ultimate medical cheat sheet, a…
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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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Surgeon Who Operated on Himself: In 1961, alone in Antarctica, Leonid Rogozov felt the ache of appendicitis — no plane could reach him. So he sterilized his…
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What absurd, highly-respected medical treatment directly caused the sudden death of America's first president, George Washington?
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The Greeks had a horrific remedy for nerve damage that involved boiling newborn dogs alive in oil. It didn't cure anything, but it definitely ruined…
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Picture a slimy creature sliding onto your skin and—surprise!—acting as a tiny living syringe. For centuries, people thought leeches were grotesque tools of…
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