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Next time you feel scared before a visit to the dentist’s, be thankful you aren’t going there 10 centuries ago. Even though there is no doubt that medicine has helped a lot to prolong the average lifespan, at certain points of its development the methods were quite strange. Some of them were even very dangerous. Let’s take a look at 13 crazy ancient treatments methods that will make you happy that you live in the 21st century. Treating cough with Heroin, toothache with smoking goat fat, using juniper and mandrake extracts were used as anesthesia and what not – these methods will shock you!
TIMESTAMPS
Malaria for treating syphilis 0:41
Treating cough with Heroin 1:20
Urine therapy 1:44
A toothache was treated with smoking goat fat 2:17
Mothers delivered babies standing or sitting on their haunches 3:36
Juniper and mandrake extracts were used as anesthesia 4:15
Chronic diseases were treated with physical exercise and holy water 4:58
Almost all diseases were treated with bloodletting 5:53
Snake venom and poisonous herbs 6:59
Mercury 7:40
Skull trepanation 8:31
Tobacco smoke enema 9:16
Cannibal cures 9:47
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SUMMARY
-In the 1920s, a doctor discovered that patients that previously had syphilis didn’t have it after they showed symptoms of malaria.
-Heroin actually helps with a cough. The worst thing is that Heroin was also given to children, and doctors thought that it was non-addictive, unlike morphine.
-Today some people still believe that it works even though there is absolutely no proof.
-Avicenna recommended smoking patients with a hot mixture of goat fat, henbane, and onion as a way of dental treatment.
-In ancient India, they knew how to change the position of the fetus in utero, and in some African tribes, healers were able to perform a cesarean section with their primitive instruments.
-In ancient Egypt, they used extracts from mandrake fruits as anesthesia for surgeries. In India and China, juniper, cannabis, and aconite were used for the same purpose.
-Ancient doctors treated diabetes with physical exercises and healing herbs. Chronic skin diseases, like psoriasis, were considered incurable.
-Doctors thought that people who had a fever simply had too much blood, so they just cut a vein open and let some blood pour out.
-Before antibiotics, people tried to fight infections with remedies based on plant poisons and viper venom.
-Ancient alchemists though mercury was a cure that could prolong the lifespan of patients.
-Headaches, epilepsy and other psychological disorders used to be cured by drastic measures: doctors drilled holes in their patient’s skulls.
-Tobacco smoke enema was first used by North American Indians and later adopted by many other doctors to treat digestion problems.
-Doctors thought that cannibal cures had some kind of magical powers. If a patient ate parts of a dead person, he also absorbed a part of the person’s spirit.
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