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Originally Posted by campy
Doing research for Jo.
Here are a few things ancient medicine would do to release the "bad Humour" from a diseased body they referred to as treatments, one might say tortures.
Leeches - quickly tweaked Jo's imagination
Localize blood letting -Localized bloodletting often in*volv*ed scarification, which meant scraping the skin with a cube-shaped brass box containing multiple small knives, followed by cupping, which involved placing a dome-shaped glass over the skin and extracting the air by suction or prior heating
OUCHIES ...Scarification....omfg
General Blood letting They would use a scalpel and nick a vein in the elbow catching the blood in bowls.
Enemtics or Purgatives - barf therapy...not real sexy
and, the good old
Mustard Plaster - a wrap combining a buch of hot shit applied to the chest.....ooof taking black wrap in the sun to a whole new level.
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OK , so leeches we've covered - though it seems they're a little hard to get hold of
Scarification I've done - both on purpose, i.e. an actual design, plus I have a multitude of scars, primarily from blood scenes. I like the cube idea though - that should be easy enough to sort out
And cupping I've done.
General blood letting I think we have in hand
Think I'll skip the vomit…
Mustard plaster sounds interesting …I'll look into it
