Devils, drugs, and doctors : the story of the science of healing from medicine men to doctor by Haggard Howard Wilcox 1891-1959

Author:Haggard, Howard Wilcox, 1891-1959 [Haggard, Howard Wilcox, 1891-1959]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: History of Medicine
Publisher: London : William Heinemann
Published: 1913-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

rats, and infest men, whom their bite inoculates with the disease. With this knowledge medicine was able to devise the measures that

TYING A VICTIM FOR THE STRAPPADO Constitulio criminalis Theresiana. The victim, A, is shown here preparatory to being exposed to the strappado. The rope attached to his arms was run through a pulley in the ceiling, and the executioner, by pulling on the end of the rope, held A suspended from the floor with his arms twisted in their sockets. If mere suspension failed to produce the desired effects, the executioner pulled on the rope and then released it suddenly, thus jerking the victim's arms. If obdurate under this treatment, the victim was weighted down with iron blocks and the procedure repeated. If he survived the application of the three varieties of torture, he was judged innocent and allowed to die of his injuries rather than being executed.

now protect Western countries from the plague. The essential feature ot these measures consists in keeping out infected rats.

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