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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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How did the medical community officially recognize the physician who invented the ice-pick lobotomy?
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How did 19th-century doctors accidentally invent the modern vibrator during routine hospital visits?
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Absolute power occasionally comes with absolute psychological breaks. Queen Maria I of Portugal suffered a total mental collapse driven by extreme religious…
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If a monarch wants to get high during childbirth, the rest of the world will quickly follow suit. For years, religious hardliners insisted the pain of labor…
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Ancient medicine was deeply terrifying. What did ancient Egyptian women actively use as an everyday form of birth control?
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