Here's a list. I forgot how long this article was. Pick out your favorites and scroll to them. The link is at the bottom.
Stretching Device To Improve Appearances
Lobotomies In Mid-Century USA
That's One Gross Way to Ease A Hangover
Treating Ringworm
This Strange Victorian Trend Of Posing With The Dead
An Outdated Remedy for Dried Skin
Treating Asthma With Cigarettes
A Bizarre Treatment For Heart Palpitations
Rectal Dilators To Cure Various Health Problems
(These may still be in use.)
The Original Anti-Depressants
Using Nux Vomica For Headaches
A Dangerous Sun Tan Vending Machine
Using Radium For A Variety Of Ailments
A Suspicious Cure for Rabies
Electric Bath Used To Treat Rheumatism
Imagine if We Still Used This Against Hay Fever
A Painful Cure for Cataracts
Victorian "Murder Bottles" For Kids
Yet Another Unpleasant Hangover Cure
Insulin Shock Therapy For Mental Disorders
Treating Swollen Eyes With The Eyes Of a Snappy Animal
Electric Belts as Therapy
Treating Swollen Body Parts With A Fox Tooth
Make Bruises Disappear Using A Powder Made From Human Bodies
A Non-Scientific Cure for Typhus
The Gentleman's Guide to Amputation
Leeching Kit Used For Bloodletting
Heroin For Cough Syrup
Preventing Tipsiness With Ground Up Bird Beaks
A Magic Word To Cure Malaria
Boiled Carrots To Treat Asthma
Hair And Deer Bone Powder To Cure Epilepsy
Lancet For Bleeding Patients
An Ancient Remedy Involving Raw Veal
"Soothing Syrup" To Alleviate Colic
Treatment For Hemorrhoids
Trepanning To Release Evil Spirits
Smallpox Vaccinations
Mercury Treatment For Syphilis
Tobacco Smoke Enema For Numerous Ailments
Posts
14 comments:
The 'good old days'....
Sue - Do you need any evil spirits released? I can help.
Wonder which of our ways will look as ridiculous
Cloudia - Or which one of these will make a comeback.
I had a quick look through about half of those, it's amazing how many "cures" featured electricity.
I wonder if trepanning would help a lot of members of Congress and some Supreme Court justices ...
Not real medicine, but some fringe practitioners today merit comparison with any of this.
The article looks fascinating. No time to thoroughly read the it this morning, but bookmarked it so I can come back to it.
You'd need some of the heroin cough syrup before attempting anything in the gentleman's guide to amputation 😁
Tthat graphic with the amputation instructions that ends in "Time for Brandy". Giggling about that one.
a 'gentleman's' guide to amputation. So he's polite while he's sawing your leg? I have a cough right now, I have to go take some heroin.
River - It was probably the latest invention back and people were saying "how else can we use this?"
Bill - I don't think we could drill down deep enough to get all the evil spirits out.
I753 - I had a similar post but can't find it. A guy at a mall was having girls sit on his face and fart. (my search limit time has expired)
Kathy - Some bedtime reading for you.
CC - More than "some"!
Lady - Back in the days of no anesthesia when amputation didn't hurt. Cheers!
Peg - Heroin, the original anesthetic.
"Treating Asthma With Cigarettes" Yeah, that ought to do it! LOL
Some of these are funny...and scary!
Martha - I hope none of them make a comeback.
Post a Comment