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

Famous quotes containing the words heroic and/or medicine:

    Who liveth by the ragged pine
    Foundeth a heroic line;
    Who liveth in the palace hall
    Waneth fast and spendeth all.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    No medicine in the world can do thee good;
    In thee there is not half an hour’s life.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)