Pliny’s cure for corns was to look at the stars whilst oil was poured on the hinge of a door. Really??
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Hairs of Hippocrates?
Did Hippocrates develop a remedy against baldness because he was worried about his own hair loss? As readers of my previous posts here will know, normally when Hippocrates gets dragged into a modern medical discussion it’s to validate whatever the writer is trying to sell; for example, watercress. But in the discussions of baldness, the… Continue reading Hairs of Hippocrates?
Mistaking histories 