The toothless smile: Runner up of the Penelope Gray-Allan Memorial CJEM Writing Award

摘要

Medieval medicine was simple, wasn’t it? The taskwas to find the balance in the four humours. Apurging, a few bloodletting procedures, and, if youwere lucky, a trephination, and you could call it aday. No evidence-based practice, no complicateddecision-making rules.