Curious medicine. Facts and stories that shock even doctors. Brater Yu.

For the treatment of erectile dysfunction, doctors prescribed “love drinks” of home -made men made from the blue heart and genital organs of swallows. Gouty was advised to be treated with a decoction prepared from a boiled anthill. And from other methods of treatment that existed in the past, just goosebumps. The history of medicine is replete with terrible and ridiculous procedures, and even today in this science there are enough curious phenomena.

This book will help the most curious to quench your thirst for knowledge and amazed how many wild methods and practices are associated with human body and health. The author, an inquisitive German doctor, has collected amazing facts about our body and cases from the history of medicine, which are able to at a dead end even scientists.