Heroic medicine
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Heroic medicine can either refer to heroic therapy or to heroic drugs.
Breathing a Vein, a caricature of bloodletting by venesection by James Gillray, 1804
Heroic measure
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In the context of medicine, heroic measures refer to any courses of treatment or therapy aimed at saving or prolonging a person's life, despite the potential harm those treatments may cause. Heroic me
Heroic medicine
…certain heroic medicines, as a first step towards the standardization of more types of drugs (which became eventually The International Pharmacopoeia). Heroic measure Brussels Pharmacopoeia Agreement (1902…
CPR is a common example of a heroic measure—performing it may result in injury but may also be necessary to save a person's life