More medical mishaps: a whale of a remedy

Mickey Starling reporter3@greenepublishing.com In a recent column, I discussed the brief use of milk as a substitute for blood in transfusions. I was certain that nothing could be stranger than that odd practice, but I was wrong. The late 1800s washed up another concoction “discovered” in Australia, which was reported to ease the affliction of rheumatism. Rheumatism was a general name given to a wide variety of ailments causing pain and stiffness in the joints. The primary source of these