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  1. 2019-03-13, 09:25 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #41
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    Default Re: Drink only beer for 46 days, no food?

    Quote Originally Posted by Eldan View Post
    I mean, the Romans apparently did intestinal surgery by washing the exposed viscera in warm wine and then stitching everything up, and enough patients survived that they wrote about it. So, there has to be some effect.
    I feel like "enough people survived that they wrote about it" is a pretty good descriptor of medicine history in general.
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