Curious Cures by Nigel Cawthorne £20 donation Disease is the true 'serial

Disease is the true 'serial killer' of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague

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others sought solace in self-flagellation or in the violent excesses of a terrible wave of anti-Semitism

Curious Cures by Nigel Cawthorne £20 donation Disease is the true 'serialDid you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey? Or that weak eyes can be cured by the application of chicken dung or alternatively by large draughts of beer taken in the morning? The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Many of them though enthusiastically supported by the doctors of the time were often useless, and sometimes