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Physicans

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World wide

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Greece
460 - 370 BC

Hippocrates of Kos
 

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was one of the first to identify hysteria as a disorder. He noticed it was common in women and thought it was caused by a displaced or "wandering uterus" also referred to as wandering womb. Because there was  little understanding of women's biology the term "Hysteria" was used to describe most of the physical and emotional female illnesses.

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America
1900's

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Every first Sunday in August at the Brewery

Every Thursday from 8pm

Plaque Doctors


During the Bubonic Plaque many fell victim to the fast spreading disease. Those who weren't fighting the sickness internally took there well abled bodies to the streets. A group of people who did were plaque doctors. Thinking the disease was air born they'd dresss in their garbs while examining the corpses of the dead. Trying to root out the cause of the epiademic. 

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Born: February 13, 1728, East Kilbride, United Kingdom

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Bubonic - Mid 6th century

Black Death, Europe - 14th Century 

Witch Doctors
 

Where folk healers are highly respected, and we're believed to be linked to the benevolent ancestors. Around the world folk who practiced medicine were referred to witch doctors, shamans, healers, or wise men/women. 

 

John Hunter

Scottish surgeon, 

John Brinkley

In the early 1900s, John Brinkley an American doctor became very wealthy, despite having no medical qualifications. He claimed he could cure impotence, infertility, and other sexual problems by surgically implanting goat testicles into a man's scrotum. 

The surgery had no scientific merit and was extremely dangerous. Many patients died.

 

Dr. Walter Freeman


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Medicinal

Oddities
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