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Ancient and modern

The ancient problem of unscrupulous ‘doctors’

12 February 2022

9:00 AM

12 February 2022

9:00 AM

Yet again ‘doctors’ with no qualifications have been found advertising dodgy but expensive products and treatments, in this case, injections of unregulated Botox variants to remove wrinkles. Pliny the Elder (d. ad 79) inveighed against such practices 2,000 years ago.

Romans had a love-hate relationship with the Greeks, and medicine was no exception.

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