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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's funny how they treated cancer:

Treatment was based on the humour theory of four bodily fluids (black and yellow bile, blood, and phlegm). According to the patient's humour, treatment consisted of diet, blood-letting, and/or laxatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cancer#Early_diagnosis

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Nowadays doctors are pretty humourless.