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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