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2 avril 2019
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laurencetotelin, « A Pain in the Backside: Ancient Remedies for Haemorrhoids », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/td6g
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By Glyn Muitjens Although haemorrhoids are not often talked about, as many seem to consider them a source of embarrassment, they are anything but a rare condition. In fact, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland suspects one in three people in Britain suffers from them sometime in life. Haemorrhoids seem to have been a common problem in Greek antiquity as well, and this inspired at least one medical author from the 5th century BCE to dedicate a treatise to them and ...