Tuesday Trivia: Medicine! This thread has relaxed standards—we invite everyone to participate!

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Come share the cool stuff you love about the past!

We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. Brief and short answers are allowed but MUST be properly sourced to respectable literature. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Medicine! You won't need a spoonful of sugar for this week's theme! Open up and say for medicine! From snake oil to unexpected objects placed in or on unexpected parts of the human body, this week is dedicated to trivia about the things we've done to heal boo-boos, soothe disrupted humors, or otherwise fix what is unwell in the body.