The Sushruta Samhita recommends pouring clarified butter into
the infected wound and then drinking it; Pliny the Elder suggests a
linen tourniquet soaked with the menstrual fluid of a dog.
From a
review of
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy.
Wasik is an editor at Wired and Murphy, his wife, a veterinarian.
Together they have coauthored a sprawling chronicle of rabies ... It’s a
rare pleasure to read a nonfiction book by authors who research
like academics but write like journalists. They have mined centuries’
worth of primary sources and come bearing only the gems.
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