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| Paulus Potter, Wolf-Hound (c. 1650) |
"To stanch the bleeding of a Wound. Take a Hounds Turd, and lay that on a hot coal, and binde it thereto, and that shall stanch bleeding..."
Elizabeth Grey Kent, A Choice Manual of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery (1653)Man's best friend: loyal, courageous, and always ready to provide you and your neighborhood with lifesaving medicine.
How on earth did people survive this treatment? Mind you, it doesn't say the treatment works!
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