Kill or Cure

People have always got sick so have always needed doctors. But while most doctors tried to help their patients sometimes their methods were weird disgusting or even dangerous. Yet this was how modern practices began. If you’re not too squeamish you’ll see barbers doubling up as surgeons leeches drawing out blood and corpses being dug up so doctors could study anatomy – along with the first anaesthetics to remove pain one of medicine’s great miracles.