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Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils

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A blog for all biological and medical ephemera, from the age of Abraham through the era of medical quackery and cure-all nostrums. Featuring illustrations, history, and totally useless trivia from the diverse realms of nature and medicine. Buy me a coffee so I can stay up and keep the lights on around here!
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Dental fun with bow drills!

Ever made a fire with a bow drill? Imagine that on your teeth!

While the second image is an early-20th century Inuit tool, ancient tools and texts found in the Indus Valley from ca. 5000-7000 B.C.E. indicate that they had very similar mechanisms (minus the metal tip - theirs would have been stone) to remove rotted sections of the larger teeth. If done proactively, as may have been practiced in the social elite, this would have resulted in much longer-lasting teeth than the common folk.

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