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Why the weasel testicles? Cambridge show explains medieval medicine
- ggm 2y agoSurprised no mention of "the doctrine of signatures" pace Pratchett which I believed was a real "thing" Separatly mouldy bread on wounds could have been observational to evident effect or simply mumbo jumbo. Surgery sometimes worked. People survived occasionally.
- zeristor 2y agoCouldn’t mouldy bread on an open wound be a random discovery of penicillin?