Medical encounters

[charlie_faraway]

A poorly-executed jump during one of my adrenalin-seeking off-piste missions on the Annupuri side of Niseko saw my back clunk into a painful disjoint that saw me quit the slopes early and stay parked in the hotel for the rest of the holiday. I had a sexy doctor come and strap it up with tape, a shiatsu massage and guzzled down the strong ibuprofens

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Sounds like something I recognise...

[anonymous]

Do you know about Franz Mesmer? Pretty interesting bloke, probably more in terms of understanding psycho-somatic relationships than anything else, and also almost certainly a quack, but may be worth having a read about. Then again I'm probably biased cos I think medicine and madness in late 18th century Europe is pretty interesting - I remember flicking through Jan Goldstein's book on "The Post-Revolutionary Self" a few years back and thinking it was pretty cool. That reminds me I really should read that properly.

Jacob