What does «medicamento heroico» mean in Spanish?
- A medicine or remedy of very energetic action and for extreme cases; also known as heroic remedy or extreme remedy. Heroic medicine, also known as heroic exhaustion theory, was a therapeutic method that advocated the rigorous treatment of bloodletting, purging, and sweating to restore the body to health after an illness caused by a humoral imbalance. Heroic medicine was the tradition in European medicine that encouraged the use of treatments with an immediate and dramatic effect, even at substantial risk to the patient.