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Obsolete medical diseases hidden in print

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Medical history is essentially a graveyard of hilarious, obsolete diagnoses used to control people. Crack open a vintage edition of Taber's Medical Dictionary and you'll find gems like 'drapetomania' (the so-called disease causing enslaved people to seek freedom) or 'bicycle face'. It is a stark reminder that doctors used to comfortably pathologize literally anything society found annoying.

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Obsolete medical diseases hidden in print
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