Bad Medical Practices In History

7 of the Most Outrageous Medical Treatments in History

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That didn’t stop other unscrupulous doctors and fraudulent salesmen, who also started traveling the American West, peddling bottles of fake snake oil, giving the truly beneficial medical...

Real Historical Medical Treatments That Are Terrible for You | Time

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5 strange and sinister medical procedures from history

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A paper published in The Lancet explains just how popular lancing baby’s gums became: “ John Hunter (1728–93) would lance a …

30 Strange Old-Timey Medical Treatments | Mental Floss

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In the 16th and 17th centuries, the use of human bodies in medical remedies became more popular than ever in Europe. They appeared in medicine for headaches, epilepsy, and …

21 Bizarre Medical Practices From Our Past | Bored Panda

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10 Terrible Ideas In Medicine From The Past 100 Years

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10 Terrible Ideas In Medicine From The Past 100 Years 10 Lobotomy. For mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression, some psychiatrists in the 1940s suggested... 9 Radioactive Water. While …

The 10 Most Insane Medical Practices in History

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History is filled with stories of hilarious medical ineptitude, and in all likeliness, today's medical practices will be similarly snorted at 100 years down the road. In other words, if you're looking to justify your …

10 Historical Medical Practices You Won't Believe Existed

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Modern medicine and medical practices have come a long way since the earliest days of treatments and patient care. Many remedies thought to solve health concerns were harmful and often deadly. …

10 Bizarre Treatments Doctors Used to Think Were Legit

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More than 6 million botulinum toxin type A injections were performed in 2012, one of the most common cosmetic surgery procedures. But someday, we humans may look back on all those Botox injections and …

5 Unethical Medical Experiments That Used Black …

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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is still recognized today as one of the most notorious cases of prolonged and knowing violation of human subjects, according to a report titled “Why African Americans...