Salubrious disgust: excrement therapy in Eighteenth-century Medicine

ABSTRACT

The use of repulsive substances, often consisting of human or animal excrement, to treat numerous diseases was quite common in primitive and ar-chaic cultures. Historical research has given this phenomenon the name of Dreck Apotheke or "excremental pharmacopoeia", and it is precisely this term that is the title of a medical text published in 1699 by a German physician, Christian Franz Paullini Heylsame Dreck-Apotheke (Salubrious excremental pharmacopoeia). This paper aims to explain, to the extent possible, the inopportune proposal of treating human diseases using feces and urine in an age when most doctors were against said doctrine

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