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Ancient Greek & Roman Medicine

You're Dead to Me

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The Four Possible Cures for Chronic Pain

Stu: It's difficult to work out what works because by the time you've had the stuff, you might have got over the thing already. But if the alternative is you get a poking and a scraping and a bunch of bile in your eye, probably a certain amount of success with that. And they're not running double blind tests, are they? Also, their collection of data was presumably kind of what we would almost call anecdotal now. Yeah, they keep in records. So they do have histories that detail the progress of a disease of the different symptoms,. What the physician did, and then the outcome of the disease. This is where we get our modern custom of patient charts

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