BIOM 3090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Standard Deviation, West Wind, Pus
31 May 2016
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To prove it, indigenous people wanted him to cure a mans fever. Magellan visited the man and soon after he didn"t have a fever. People thought he must be a god, but in reality the cause was innate repair mechanisms that could not be detected. Man tried to break up a sword fight and got wounded serious infection. Kenelm recommended power of sympathy : treat the weapon that inflicted the wound, not the wound, wound healed. Believed that magnetism was an invisible healing fluid. Passed magnetic rods around patients" bodies or had them hold iron rods connected to. Following these procedures many people recovered from their ailments. People came all across europe to get this treatment. Blindfolded patients didn"t know if they received the treatment or not. Just as many people reported dramatic improvements magnets made no difference. The recoveries were the result of natural processes that could not be detected at that time.
