Treatment of pneumonia in folk medicine in the preantibiotic era.

Abstract

During a dermatological examination we found on the back of a 65-year-old man two scars, one on the left back (circled) of 5 cm and another much broader -of 20x5 cm- on the right back with dystrophic skin lacking hairs and glands. The patient still remembered as a nightmare, when he was 2 years, the application by the doctor, of a cloth bag containing hot bran to cure his pneumonia.