The Lesser (King’s) Evil
The Lesser (King’s) Evil: A desperate woman, suffering from scrofula, submits to a gruesome home surgery.
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‘19th century medicine’
Curing Consumption with Black Dogs
While we know Black Dogs as harbingers of Death, earthly black dogs were also considered to be a source of a remedy for tuberculosis. Here is an account of that macabre and dubious remedy.