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"...a means against the dreaded dysentery - which was composed of a powder of northern pike jaws, penis of a deer, burned cloud berries, Armenian mud, bark from a pomegranate tree and seeds of water acid" - What was (battlefield)medicine like in the early 1700s?

by /u/rithe740 in /r/AskHistorians

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