Is the pouring of blood from a bird's heart on Conde's(Glover) gout an accurate historical treatment of gout at that time-the 17th century?
shareat that time people thougth blood form a bird's heart will cure gout but obiously it doesn't make you any good
sharemedieval treatments :D they never did much good did they?
The treatment is the accurate one for the times but they knew NOTHING at this time period! It was tragic how little the doctors knew at this point.
shareThey knew a heck of a lot more in the middle east at this time than they did in Europe, where people were just downright filthy. But as Steve Martin said so eloquently on Saturday Night Live:
"Say, who's the barber here?"
Here is the whole skit, an absolute classic.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77rtheodoric.phtml
"In our wings that bark, flashing teeth of brass, standing tall in the dark" - David Bowie
Yup, nothing beats having a barber cut open your arm so your can "bleed the foulness away" into a bowl.
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