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Gruesome Medicine
Explores ancient medical techniques and possible new applications in the modern era. Techniques reviewed include blood letting by leeches, reading from a torpedo fish, trepanning to relieve pressure on the brain, and Roman battlefield surgery and tools. Other items reviewed include how snake venom was used as medicine and using replica tools and virtual surgery in a computer to see how an arrow was removed from the skull of Prince Henry V of England.
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Other episodes for this season
![Airborne Assault](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/39Ro9HbUfdhdkW6OSSTH5OXIfce.jpg)
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![Ancient Mega-Fort](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/eazuWZrMAlS5Wz190uTWbVnXhCi.jpg)
![Ancient Secret Agents](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/sI3hqpdz9mRFhItA7L7T2wNORjK.jpg)
![Gruesome Medicine](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/zltFjVBjdx6L6c7VdYnwJ0eR6p3.jpg)
![Riots and Revolution](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/39Ro9HbUfdhdkW6OSSTH5OXIfce.jpg)
![Ancient Commandos](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/39Ro9HbUfdhdkW6OSSTH5OXIfce.jpg)
![Ancient Special Forces](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/oIA2iPHw2FhM3xKcbuwZu1uZjtj.jpg)
![Twisted Weapons of the East](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/fg2iFnArURcFoHsNOSrMPBUXeEv.jpg)
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![Secret Science of the Occult](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/o7Y88rxCJGOoB6yddfNjxCfkNcE.jpg)
![Episode 16](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/39Ro9HbUfdhdkW6OSSTH5OXIfce.jpg)