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Lecture | Leeches! Arsenic! Water Therapy! Blistering! Unusual Medical Cures from the 19th Century (online)

Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 6:00 pm

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Before Pasteur and the advent of germ theory in 1859, medicine was nothing short of the wild wild west. And with antibiotics almost a century away, doctors could only treat the symptoms of the sickness, not the sickness itself. The cures were often strange, indeed -- and could be worse than the illness. Matilda Garrido and Ashley Semrick in a lively discussion of medical cures used in the 19th century, such as leeches, hydropathy (water therapy), patent medicines (which frequently made patients sicker), and more. Matilda will also present the concept of the "wandering uterus," believed for centuries to be the cause of all female illness.

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