accidental discoveries

Sep 17, 2005 23:48

very early in his medical career samuel hahnemann realized that the practice of medicine was actually very dangerous, even life-threatening, for the patient -- oftentimes a patient was made worse from a physician's treatment. of course, this was back in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when blood-letting was common practice, and ( Read more... )

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saltdawg September 18 2005, 12:28:34 UTC
Man. If there is one thing I can't stand, it's tertiary syphylis...

Not that I was doing that would lead to this condition or nothing,

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rednfiery September 19 2005, 18:17:11 UTC
*snicker*

yeah, i'm sure there are very vew people on this planet who would do anything that would lead to that condition!

in class yesterday, part of the lecture covered the symptoms of primary, secondary and tertiary syphilis, and what remedies are useful to treat each stage. it's icky and gross. but totally amazing and completely riveting.

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