And suffer they did as doctors employed white-hot irons to ulcerated skin, or administered painful sudorifics derived from mercury and the American guaiacum tree.
The selection of drugs reflected the early 19th-century preoccupation with the elimination of disease-causing toxins; thus laxatives, emetics, sudorifics, bleeding, and techniques to promote blistering appear frequently.
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