London Archaeologist Ellen Green will conduct a tour through some of the odder ways people have dealt with disease through history.
Which of these facts are true? a) Romans were performing cataract surgery in the first century A.D., b) keeping a goat in one’s house was believed to ward off the plague, or c) having a hole drilled through your skull was considered a good cure for headache. The answer is that all are true!
This online, virtual program will be presented using Zoom and is free and open to all.
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