Treatments significant chiefly as historical medical practice, largely superseded or discredited by modern evidence-based medicine. Belongs here: Bloodletting and Trepanation. Does not belong here: a historical treatment whose modern descendant remains standard practice today, such as Variolation, the historical precursor to vaccination, grouped under preventive and immunologic intervention because that is the category its modern form belongs to.
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1. History of medicine (Wikipedia)
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The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
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