“…I curse loquacious doctors for their lies:They kill the man who’d live, save him who’d died.Many physicians are foes of the sickAnd fail to study what is wrong but, quick,Prescribe a cure, and often kill outright…” Part of a medieval Latin poem, discovered D. Yates, Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1980). Satirical medical art … Continue reading Doctors of the Past: Satirical Medical Art