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Modern medicine is highly developed. Especially great leap occurred in the last fifty years. Today, many medical procedures and treatments of the past can plunge you into horror, but nevertheless they took place.
1. Rend.
Doctors called the Middle Ages four major body fluids. It's blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. It was believed that the excess or lack of these fluids affect human health. In particular, many doctors believed that many sick people simply had too much blood and the excess had to be drained. This was done with the help of leeches or by punctures and incisions on the body.
2. Treatment with mercury
Mercury has been extremely popular in medicine. The ancient Persians and Greeks used it as an ointment and Chinese alchemists believed that mercury contributes to the prolongation of life.
3. Soliterovaya diet.
The essence of the diet - to swallow the parasite and hope that he will eat of the food eaten by you. Unfortunately some kinds of parasites have dire consequences for the organism.
4. Electroconvulsive therapy.
ECT or electroconvulsive therapy was first used in the 40s as an alternative to lobotomy patients with mental disorders.
5. Vin Mariani.
In 1863, an Italian chemist Angelo Mariani patented medicinal drink coca leaves. He called it wine Mariani. As you guessed, coca leaves are for the production of cocaine.
6. Radium.
The discovery of radium led to an entire industry of luminous products, as well as medicines created by charlatans, who advised to add radium in drinking water for the treatment of various diseases.
7. Belladonna.
Modern anesthesia - a relatively young science by the standards of medicine. Previously belladonna anesthesia used in combination with other ingredients. Incorrect combination thereof or incorrect dosage can lead to death.
8. Treatment of mice dead.
Dead mice were used for medicinal purposes in ancient Egypt, where the bodies of mice, mixed with other ingredients and used to relieve toothache. Later, in England, cut in half the mice treated warts.
< 9. Smoking.
Today, we know that smoking is harmful. But before smoking it was considered beneficial to health occupation. For example, in the late 19th and early 20th century, the inhalation of tobacco smoke was a treatment for asthma.
10. Urine.
Human urine is used as an antiseptic. The Romans used it for teeth whitening. Even now, in traditional medicine, often used urine.
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1. Rend.
Doctors called the Middle Ages four major body fluids. It's blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. It was believed that the excess or lack of these fluids affect human health. In particular, many doctors believed that many sick people simply had too much blood and the excess had to be drained. This was done with the help of leeches or by punctures and incisions on the body.
2. Treatment with mercury
Mercury has been extremely popular in medicine. The ancient Persians and Greeks used it as an ointment and Chinese alchemists believed that mercury contributes to the prolongation of life.
3. Soliterovaya diet.
The essence of the diet - to swallow the parasite and hope that he will eat of the food eaten by you. Unfortunately some kinds of parasites have dire consequences for the organism.
4. Electroconvulsive therapy.
ECT or electroconvulsive therapy was first used in the 40s as an alternative to lobotomy patients with mental disorders.
5. Vin Mariani.
In 1863, an Italian chemist Angelo Mariani patented medicinal drink coca leaves. He called it wine Mariani. As you guessed, coca leaves are for the production of cocaine.
6. Radium.
The discovery of radium led to an entire industry of luminous products, as well as medicines created by charlatans, who advised to add radium in drinking water for the treatment of various diseases.
7. Belladonna.
Modern anesthesia - a relatively young science by the standards of medicine. Previously belladonna anesthesia used in combination with other ingredients. Incorrect combination thereof or incorrect dosage can lead to death.
8. Treatment of mice dead.
Dead mice were used for medicinal purposes in ancient Egypt, where the bodies of mice, mixed with other ingredients and used to relieve toothache. Later, in England, cut in half the mice treated warts.
< 9. Smoking.
Today, we know that smoking is harmful. But before smoking it was considered beneficial to health occupation. For example, in the late 19th and early 20th century, the inhalation of tobacco smoke was a treatment for asthma.
10. Urine.
Human urine is used as an antiseptic. The Romans used it for teeth whitening. Even now, in traditional medicine, often used urine.
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