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[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I mean, there was a good chunk of that time where the doctors thought that bleeding someone to balance their humors was a valid treatment for a variety of things. Some things were treated with amputation with only alcohol as an anesthetic (and disinfectant, if they happened to splash some on the wound).

[-] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

And God forbid they even washed hands before an operation

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