“But behind every misguided treatment – from Ottomans eating clay to keep the plague away to Victorian gents sitting in a mercury steam room for their syphilis to epilepsy sufferers sipping gladiator blood in ancient Rome – is the incredible power of the human desire to live.”

“But behind every misguided treatment – from Ottomans eating clay to keep the plague away to Victorian gents sitting in a mercury steam room for their syphilis to epilepsy sufferers sipping gladiator blood in ancient Rome – is the incredible power of the human desire to live.”

— Lydia Kang