This is bizarre. Here’s one of the tamer entries:
Stubbins Ffirth: The Yellow Fever Vomit-Drinking Doctor
During the 1800s, a doctor training in Philadelphia, Stubbins Ffirth, formed the hypothesis that yellow fever was not an infectious disease, and proceeded to test it on himself. He first poured infected vomit into open wounds, then drank the vomit. He did not fall ill, but not because yellow fever is not infectious: it was later discovered that it must be injected directly into the bloodstream, typically through the bite of a mosquito.
The complete list (Not for the queasy)
Thanks Jorge
