For the past year or two especially, illness in its many forms has taken on a prominent role in the collective mind. Some have been around since the days of antiquity (picture brontosauruses struggling with arthritis), while others are seemingly newly emerged, a product of modern living.
The way in which certain conditions were treated may seem plain bizarre to us now. Undiagnosed children with celiac, for instance, ate strictly bananas (see below).
Others had medical experts describing them in rather poetic and philosophical ways, such as “bewitched ear” for tinnitus. Still others you may cringe at when learning of both the judgmental lens through which they were perceived and inhumane ways in which they were treated by the folk of the time.
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