命运之痒

• 仓川茶

  2021-07-03
  Although doctors did their best to fight this contagion, medical knowledge was not really knowledge at all; it was more guesswork and superstition.The altogether strange, and at times barbaric, medical treatments reflect the complete ignorance of the causes for mosquito-borne diseases, or most diseases for that matter... Common treatments included ingesting animal fats, snake venom, mercury, or pulverized insects. The ancient Egyptian practice of bathing in fresh human urine was still practiced. Drinking one’s own urine was now also widespread. Bleeding, blistering, leeches, and cupping glasses were also staples in the medicine chest. Although no more effective than the popular remedy of using poultices and dressings of freshly killed pigeons or chipmunk brains, copious amounts of alcohol...