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Because if someone is mentally unwell, dizzying them into unconsciousness will surely fix it. 'Rotational therapy' spun patients at horrific speeds to…
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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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Why did hospitals strictly ban surgeons from wearing white uniforms in the early 1900s, replacing them with green scrubs?
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Before the 1920s, a diabetes diagnosis was functionally a death sentence managed only by starvation diets. Researchers finally figured out how to extract a…
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