Popular medical errors / [James Bower Harrison].

  • Harrison, James Bower
Date:
1851
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Credit: Popular medical errors / [James Bower Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hann to the Hon. Robert Boyle, allusion is made to the cure of warts — “ by taking an elder stick, and cutting as many notches in it as tliere are warts; then rubbing it upon the warts, and burying it in a dunghill.”* He also says that Grose gives for the removal of these excrescences direction “ to steal a piece of beef from a butcher’s shop, and rub your wart with it; then throw it down the neces- sary-house, or bury it, and as the beef rots, your warts will decay.” t Fortunately we are now in possession of more effectual means of removing warts, so that the charms may be said to have lost their charm. THAT BLISTERS NOT RISING SHOW THE PATIENT TO BE DYING. It is very certain that a blister will not rise on a dead man any more than on a hair trunk; but there is a very ridiculous notion, that if a blister does not rise, it is a proof that the pa- tient is likely to die. I need not say that * ]\Iedical Superstitions, p. 77. f Ibid. p. 80.
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