
Vomiting
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
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Vomitorium Camis Are Wild, Okay?
The term vomitorium was first used by the roman writer macrobius in saturnalia. It's used is like this symbol of how gluttonous the romans were, right? Ok. But that wasn't what vomitoriums were. And so the myth persisted with this literal kind of understanding and people built on it. Ontis murnenow: I want to talk about vomiting used as either a symptom to treat or a means of treatment.
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