(November 14, 2018 at 3:45 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 14, 2018 at 3:35 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Next you'll all be telling me that leeches and tempanning aren't valid medical procedures...
I won’t tell you that, because they are. Leeches have a couple of valid uses, but the only one I can recall at the moment is that they secrete a something or other that is used in clotting disorders. Trepanning is performed to relieve brain swelling.
Boru
Oh, look at that. Now I know who to go to with questions on 12th century medicine.
-Teresa
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