Bizarre Medical Practices From History

If you don't have a medical license you can't loose your license.

This made me appreciate modern medicine even more.

The "tying a loose tooth to the doorknob and slamming the door" trick doesn't seem nearly so painful anymore.

It’s kinda miraculous that anyone survived at all!

“Nothing cures you like butt-chugging turpentine” is now my motto.

01:53 - Syphilis is caused by a bacteria, not a virus. Malaria is caused by a single cell parasite, not a virus either.

There’s plenty of absurd modern “alternative medicines” that get wide popularity which suggests just another glitch in human reasoning

I wonder what societies 150 years from now will think of our current medical practices.

DR. Antonio Moniz was actually awarded the Nobel Prize for coming up with the lobotomy procedure. That's crazy to think about today.

Radium as a prescription was absolutely insane.

As an orthodontic assistant I’m very grateful for modern medical technology

As to the Tapeworm thing, I would relate to my life science students that women would go to a Doctor to get a script for them prior to their wedding day so that they could fit into their wedding dresses then go back after the wedding to get another script to purge the worm and stop losing weight. One of my students actually related a story that her grandmother told her that her mother got a script for her in preparation for her wedding. As to the radium thing, when I was teaching radiological controls for the US Navy we had a student bring in a water cooler that they found in his grandmother's attic that had a pamphlet with it touting the cooler ability of "restoring that healthful natural radioactivity to your water". We tested some of the scrapings of the ceramic liner with our instruments and yes it was highly radioactive. So radioactive he called home, told his parents and they had us safely dispose of it.

I would like to see the history of weird surgeries.

A video on how women going into labor/giving birth were treated throughout history might be a good one. Terrifying topic, really. Edit: Clarification

That reminds me. I have an appointment with my barber for a haircut, and my annual blood letting!😳

My FIL is a retired mortician and Funeral home owner. He used Formaldehyde on the kids poison ivy. 😳

Pov: loving history, and wanting to time travel Also pov: remembering that modern medicine is practically brand new to the world

Having to Live with one of the worse sickness can be exhausting but I still have to believe I can be healed.

Always learning something knew from our favorite history professor 😃

Hell I'm old enough to remember my cuts and scrapes being treated with mercurichrome- which has mercury in it.