The Death of Elisabeth

The medical texts of a contemporary transylvanian doctor forrent pi paris, contain a number of procedures that to the untrained eye might look suspiciously like torture. Necrotic tissue needed to be cut from healthy flesh to prevent infection from spreading. Boils and abscesses had to be lanced. Wounds needed to be cauterized with red hot irons. For some ailments, hot cupping was recommended. Stinging nettles were an old wives cure for rheumatism and arthritis. Some seamstresses suffered from boils under their nail beds, a con on known as finger nail poison.