Heroic Medicine

Heroic medicine therapies are the aggressive medical practices or methods of treatment used until the mid-nineteenth century, particularly the dangerous and unproven treatments that scientific advances later replaced.

Read more about Heroic Medicine:  Benjamin Rush, Age of Heroic Medicine

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    Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.
    —Chinese proverb.

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