Plague Physician Prescribed Spiteful Bloodletting

In 1382 a physician to the Avignon Papacy, a man named Raimundo Chalmel de Vinario, realized bloodletting could not cure plague but prescribed it for members of the Roman Curia whom he disliked. He also maintained that all genuine instances of plague were due to astrological causes, and he rendered the disease incurable. He never did cure a single patient.

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