Critics denounced physicians as meddlesome, capriciously practising an often dangerous polypharmacy – a blunderbuss approach.

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The Varlet was not an ill-favoured knave; A good deal like a Vulture in the face With a hook nose and a Hawk’s eye which gave A smart & sharper-looking sort of grace To his whole aspect, which though rather grave Was by no means so ugly as his case, But that indeed was hopeless as can be— Quite a poetic felony “de se.”

Two measurements were taken: 1) the sitting height (SitH1), measured as the vertical distance from the vertex of the head to the floor; 2) the vertical grip reach from a seated position (SitH2), measured as the maximal distance from the tip of the dactylion III to the floor, with the upper arms extended overhead as much as possible (Fig 3).