“Studying the phenomenon of disease without books is the same as
what to swim in an uncharted sea,
and studying from books without patients is the same,
that we shouldn’t go to sea at all.”

Sir William Osler (Physician and Professor of Medicine)

Historical documents indicate that our ancestors had fairly good knowledge about various ailments and diseases. However, some of the therapeutic methods they used were, to put it mildly, not inspiring confidence. Since people of the past were the first to study various methods of treating various ailments, experimentation reigned in medicine. In the absence of any primary sources, healers tried, unsuccessfully, to help the sick, everything they could, and often the treatment did more harm than good. There was no certainty of recovery, but there was a high probability that the medicines would contain some extremely disgusting ingredients.

Bloodletting

Doctors of the past believed that the body was made up of four main substances - yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood - and maintaining a balance between them was the key to health. People suffering from various types of ailments were often “discovered” to have too much blood. To eliminate the existing problem, doctors simply cut the veins and released a certain amount into the cup. Although bloodletting could easily lead to death with the slightest carelessness, it continued to be resorted to until the 19th century, when even barbers offered it as part of their services along with shaving and cutting hair. This method of treatment was stopped when it was finally proven that it did more harm than good. However, in rare cases, controlled bloodletting is still practiced today in the form of leech therapy.

Skull treatment

Among the ancient Sumerians/Babylonians, the role of doctors was often performed by priests or spellcasters, and the methods of treatment they recommended were based on magic. It was believed that diseases often appear due to possession by spirits. To combat and free themselves from spirits, doctors ordered patients to sleep with a human skull for a week. As an additional precaution against spirit possession, it was also recommended to lick and kiss the skull seven times a night.

Treatment methods for hemorrhoids

Until the 12th century, people believed that hemorrhoids appeared because a person was not pious. Therefore, if someone had the misfortune of encountering this disease, he was sent to a monastery, where the monks treated the unfortunate person by pushing a hot iron rod into his anus. After all, in the 12th century, a Jewish doctor studied the nature of hemorrhoids and questioned the effectiveness of such treatments. He suggested a simpler alternative: taking warm baths to relieve pain. This method is still widely used today.

Mercury

Today, most of us know that mercury is poisonous to the human body. However, previously this substance was considered one of the most effective medicines, which helped get rid of a wide range of health problems. The ancient Persians and Greeks forced patients to drink mercury or apply it to the body as an ointment. The Chinese used mercury-containing compounds in the belief that they increased vitality and ensured long life. Until the late 19th century, this liquid metal was used to treat sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis. Not surprisingly, many patients died from kidney and liver damage caused by mercury poisoning.

Cannibalistic drugs

In ancient times, it was believed that eating the remains of a deceased person increased the level of vital energy. Potions containing human blood, bones or flesh were often recommended for people suffering from headaches, boils, seizures, etc. The ancient Romans ground up the mummies they captured as trophies in Egypt and added the resulting powder to various medicines. This shocking practice continued into the 17th century: British King Charles II was rumored to drink a drink made from alcohol and powdered human skulls.

Ointments from feces

The ancient Egyptians were known for their well-developed medical system. However, the medications they prescribed were extremely questionable. For example, ointments for external use were often made from the blood of lizards and dead mice, while women were given horse saliva to increase libido. The worst practice was probably the inclusion of animal and human excrement in various healing compositions. The droppings of deer, dogs and donkeys were considered particularly effective in protecting humans from evil spirits. Victorian medicine describes a concoction of crosswort, fry, goose and chicken droppings, and wild pig lard that was used to treat burns.

Treatment with bee venom

Bee venom treatment, a practice that is still used today, has been used to treat diseases such as herpes, arthritis and rheumatism for many hundreds of years. Doctors deliberately made bees sting patients in the nose and mouth area to heal them from a variety of diseases. There is no scientific evidence of the effectiveness of this treatment method yet.

Larval therapy

Typically indispensable for non-healing surgical wounds, maggot therapy has been used throughout most of human history. This treatment method involved placing maggots into open wounds, which would eat away dead tissue, promoting the healing process. Surprisingly, maggot therapy is beginning to regain popularity among modern doctors.

Lobotomy

One of the most controversial medical practices in human history, lobotomy even earned its inventor a Nobel Prize. Used in the fight against diseases such as schizophrenia and even anxiety and depression, it was very popular until the 1930s. This method of treatment involved inserting a needle or loop through the eye sockets into a certain part of the brain, which sometimes resulted in unwanted damage. By the 1950s, when lobotomy was phased out, more than 70,000 people had been treated with the procedure. Today, a similar procedure called a lobectomy is used to treat epilepsy.

Consumption of live fish

In India, live fish has been used to cure patients suffering from asthma for over 150 years. The treatment involves placing a small live fish down the patient's throat along with a secret medicinal pill. After undergoing this procedure, the patient must follow a strict diet for the next 45 days. Despite the lack of scientific evidence of the effectiveness of this method, more than half a million people resort to its help every year.

Treatment methods for naughty children

In the 19th century, people were probably too tired to deal with wayward, unruly children. Various soothing syrups and candies were made to pacify troublesome children. The problem with these drugs was that they contained large quantities of drugs, including morphine, chloroform, codeine, heroin, opium and cannabis. However, thanks to all these ingredients, their effects were very effective, provided that parents did not mind their children being completely drugged or dying from an overdose.

Electric current to treat impotence

In the 19th century, a new phenomenon called “electric current” was introduced to man. While searching for different ways to use electric current, people suggested that it could be used to solve problems in bed. During this period, a huge number of electric beds, belts and other devices were created that supposedly had the ability to return men to their “virility”. Needless to say, the idea of ​​using these devices quickly failed, presumably after men began to experience some unpleasant results from the effects of electricity on their lower bodies.

Urine therapy

A very popular alternative medicine even today, urine therapy has been practiced by people around the world for centuries. It is believed that drinking one's own urine, applying it to the skin, or administering it in the form of enemas can relieve a variety of ailments and increase a person's vitality. However, it has not been scientifically proven that ingesting urine or applying it externally has any effect other than causing a person to emit an unpleasant odor. However, urine therapy still has a huge number of adherents.

Other Disgusting Treatments of the Past

• To remove teeth without pain, doctors recommended piercing the woodlice with a needle and holding it near the affected tooth.
• In the 17th century, a popular remedy for sprains, back pain and rheumatism was a decoction of live toads with butter.
• Cystic tumors were treated by some medical practitioners by rubbing the affected area with the hand of a dead person.
• In the 14th century, the big problem was treating lethargy, so every available method was used, including using loud speech near patients, pulling their hair and nose, exposing them to squealing pigs, irritating the nose to provoke sneezing, and constantly interrupting patients' sleep.
• In the 1500s, a mixture of molasses, anise water and the urine of young boys was prescribed as a remedy for the plague.
• As a way of weaning children off the habit of wetting the bed, 16th-century medical texts recommended giving a child a dead mouse to eat.

As you can see, doctors in the past prescribed extremely dubious drugs to their patients, which, as we now know, are completely ineffective and in some cases deadly. Let's hope that none of us will have to face any of the above treatment methods in our lives. Be healthy!

Bleeding

The opinion that diseases could be treated by pumping liters of blood out of the patient was based on humoral pathology - a speculative theory according to which the causes of all diseases were a disorder of the body's juices. According to Hippocrates, the body contained blood, mucus, yellow and black bile in equal proportions. The cause of numerous diseases was considered to be an excess of blood, which is why they resorted to using a knife - and patients rarely survived such a procedure.

In other cases, not only blood, but also other juices could be released. For example, the mentally ill poet Friedrich Hölderlin had his forehead burned with fire, inflicting “healing” wounds. The pus flowing from the wounds was revered as yellow bile, which, according to Hölderlin’s diagnosis, was in abundance in his body.

Mercury against syphilis

Modern antibiotics help much better than mercury against the formerly common “disease of sensualists,” that is, syphilis. However, doctors of that time had no choice and resorted to the help of toxic metal. It was assumed that mercury should eliminate excess “mucus,” but if the patient did not tolerate treatment with the poisonous metal, this only proved that the “medicine” was working. Internal and external use of mercury, of course, had no effect on the symptoms of syphilis, but led to death due to intoxication. One way or another, even without resorting to radical treatment, patients with syphilis suffered from ulcers and scars that remained for life, and many developed dementia in the late stages, leading later to death.

Trepanation

It is unknown what the doctors were trying to achieve by drilling a hole in the skull: to add something to its contents, or, on the contrary, to subtract from it. What is clear is that the ancients had a specific purpose for drilling into the skulls of their neighbors. Archaeologists report the discovery of more than 450 trepanned Stone Age skulls in Europe. Obviously, trepanning a skull using a flint tool was not that difficult. In most cases, the operation was successful and the patient remained alive. One can only guess about the true meaning of such treatment. Perhaps this was used to treat headaches or brain damage. It is possible that trepanation was one of the religious practices. Scientists have not yet found a definite answer.

Anti-masturbation corset

In the 18th century, you didn't have to be sick to become familiar with dubious medical theories or unreliable therapeutic practices. European medicine at that time created real hysteria regarding self-satisfaction, which was widespread among both sexes. In addition to promiscuity, hair loss and brain liquefaction, masturbation threatened humanity with all possible dangers. Strict educational measures, such as additional prayers and refusal of tight clothing, were supposed to help cope with the “disease,” however, such methods did not always lead to the desired result. For this reason, many parents carefully dressed their offspring in special corsets that blocked the possibility of touching their own genitals. It was more economical and effective than tying a daughter or son’s hands at night.

Rectal smoking

Tobacco smoke, according to doctors of the 18th century, was also supposed to awaken vital forces, so tobacco enemas were used as first aid for victims of shipwrecks. Those who were caught unconscious from the water were promptly pumped full of smoke - rectally, orally, or from both sides at once, for greater reliability.

Joseph Cox swing

The swing, invented by the English neurologist Joseph Mason Cox, was used to rotate the mentally ill around its axis. The Cox apparatus differed from previous models in that the patient sat with his back leaning back. This situation caused dizziness, nausea and vomiting in patients. Another effect of using such a swing was the fear of repeating the procedure. The swing was supposed to make patients controllable or, on the contrary, open to dialogue - this was also the goal of many other methods of neuroscience in the 19th century, creating in a person the feeling that he was drowning or choking.

Lobotomy

In the last century, the craze for lobotomizing the mentally ill reached unexpected proportions. American physician Walter Freeman discovered that an incision in the frontal lobes of the brain helps patients with schizophrenia with a relatively minimal degree of surgical intervention. He drilled a hole under the patient's eyelid using an ice pick, and then, when making an incision, he navigated by touch, which often turned the patients into “vegetables.” In his Lobomobile, a specially equipped car, Freeman traveled all over America to cure as many patients as possible. However, he was not the only lobotomist. In the 20th century, more than 50,000 people underwent this dubious procedure.

The phrase became: “Do no harm.”

But in the recent past, doctors and other specialists often resorted to quite questionable treatment methods, including those that we now consider ineffective and sometimes dangerous.

The history of medicine has seen the use of many strange tonics, drugs and treatments, ranging from mercury to heroin.

History of medicine

1. Moldy bread

Moldy bread was used to disinfect cuts in ancient Egypt. Even though this sounds like a crazy treatment, it actually makes some sense. As the famous French microbiologist later discovered Louis Pasteur, some types of fungi inhibit the growth of disease-causing bacteria, such as penicillin.

2. Methamphetamine

This method became popular thanks to Adolf Hitler, who was a hypochondriac. His doctor gave him vitamin injections, sometimes laced with the drug methamphetamine. The injections kept the Fuhrer "energetic, alert, active, talkative and allowed him to stay awake for many hours at night."

3. Gases in a jar

In the Middle Ages, doctors believed that “like cures like” and during the plague, which was believed to be caused by deadly fumes, some doctors advised storing intestinal gases in a jar and inhaling them more often.

4. Dead mouse paste

Ancient Egyptians rubbed a paste of dead mice along with other ingredients to treat toothaches.

But the Egyptians were not the only ones who resorted to treatment with mice. So in the Elizabethan era in England, a mouse cut in half was applied to warts. Mice have also been used to treat whooping cough, measles, smallpox, and bedwetting.

5. Crocodile excrement

In ancient Egypt, crocodile excrement was used as contraception. Dried manure was inserted into the vagina, and when it softened at body temperature, it was believed that this created an impenetrable obstacle to conception.

Other contraceptive methods also included tree sap, lemon halves, cotton, wool, sea sponges and elephant excrement.

6. Arsenic

Arsenic is known as a poison, but has been used as a medicine in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. It also became a key ingredient in the treatment of malaria and syphilis in the late 18th century, as well as arthritis and diabetes. Victorian women used arsenic as a cosmetic.

Ancient medicine

7. Snake oil

For centuries, Chinese water snake oil has been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat joint pain and is still used today.

Snakes are now known to be a source of eicosapentaenoic acid and omega-3 fatty acids, which have anti-inflammatory properties.

8. Uroscopy

In medieval Europe, doctors made diagnoses based on uroscopy, in other words, by looking at patients' urine. Some patients brought their urine to the doctor themselves, while others sent a test. The doctor would usually observe the smell, consistency, and even taste of the urine.

9. Wine Mariani

Mariani wine was invented by Italian chemist Angelo Mariani in 1863. The tonic consisted of wine and coca leaves. The drink became very popular, probably because coca leaves contain cocaine. The advertisement claimed that Mariani wine was approved by 8,000 doctors and was ideal for “overworked men, weak women and sickly children.” It was enjoyed by Thomas Edison, Queen Victoria, Pope Pius X and others.

American pharmacist John Pemberton later created a similar drink, which became known as Coca-Cola.

10. Diagnosis based on sheep liver

In the absence of blood tests and x-rays, ancient healers resorted to unusual methods of diagnosing the disease. So in Mesopotamia, doctors judged the health of a patient by studying the liver of a sacrificed sheep.

At that time, the liver was considered the source of human blood, that is, the source of life.

11. Cutting the tongue

In the 18th and 19th centuries, doctors tried to treat stuttering by cutting off half the patient's tongue. This method is now used to treat oral cancer, and the procedure is performed under general anesthesia, which is not the case in the past.

In addition to the fact that this method did not work, it caused unbearable pain and some patients bled to death.

12. Electroshock

One of the most commonly used but controversial treatments is electroconvulsive therapy, or electroshock. The method was invented in the 1930s to treat mental illness. Today, electric shock is still used in the treatment of severe forms of depression.

13. Ketchup

In 1830, Dr. Archibald Miles(Archibald Miles) claimed to have found a substance in tomatoes that would cure diarrhea, nausea and indigestion. The tomato extract he released was later declared a hoax. As you know, tomatoes actually contain beneficial lycopene and antioxidants. However, modern tomato products, such as ketchup, also contain a lot of salt, sugar and preservatives.

Alternative medicine

14. Dog excrement

Dried dog excrement was once used to relieve sore throats. They were mixed with honey to clear and reduce inflammation in the throat. This medicine was also used as a patch to heal wounds.

15. Shark cartilage

The idea of ​​using shark cartilage to treat cancer arose in the 1950s, after it was discovered that sharks do not get cancer. However, modern research has shown that shark cartilage does not have a significant effect on human health.

16. Dirt

Mud is used in numerous pharmaceutical drugs, including tablet coatings. NASA has also used this treatment to counteract the degenerative effects of weightlessness on bones.

17. Cigarettes

Those who foam at the mouth in defense of alternative medicine argue that the only difference between such methods and traditional ones lies only in their temporary non-recognition by official bodies. As a result, there are a number of techniques that have a pretty good effect on both the patient’s health and the healer’s wallet.

Today there are many healers who, using alternative techniques, promise to cure almost any disease. There are secrets of returning to former beauty, they were indicated by the ancients.

Is it any wonder that the effectiveness of such methods is quite difficult to assess. Some of them really help, while others directly expose the charlatan. We will tell you below about the most unusual methods of treatment today. Let everyone be able to evaluate whether it is worth being treated with their help or not.

Treatment in a cryochamber. Many, of course, have heard about freezing people in cryogenic chambers. In this case, the patient’s body is placed in liquid nitrogen in order to revive him after several tens or hundreds of years. After all, then doctors, of course, will be able to defeat the most serious diseases. But what will happen if a living person, without clothes, is placed in such a chamber, at a temperature of -85 degrees, for just a few minutes? Proponents of this technique argue that a three-minute stay of a person in such conditions leads to a positive shock to the whole organism. Pain-relieving hormones begin to be produced, and strength for sports appears. Such doping should be recognized as legal.

Urine therapy, coprotherapy. Not everyone perceives urine and feces only as human waste. On one of the online fan resources, ardent followers compare urine to that delicious food that we leave on the plate for last. The smartest adherents claim that drinking your own urine cures cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, allergies and asthma. These techniques are quite ancient - they are already thousands of years old. But the medical effectiveness of drinking your own urine and feces has not been officially proven.

Gene therapy. Geneticists say that all a person’s problems are hidden in his DNA. If a patient suffers from depression, then the culprit is his bad heredity, all the grievances suffered by his ancestors. If a person cannot quit smoking, then probably one of his ancestors at one time worked in the tobacco industry and became saturated with nicotine. Brave geneticists claim that by interfering with the structure of DNA, it will be possible to remove from a person those very defective genes that lead to diseases. But how to do this is still unclear. Of course, this field is full of charlatans, some of them even offer DNA correction over the phone. In the meantime, genetic cures for such common misfortunes as cancer and alcoholism are enjoying success.

Rebirthing. In Russian, this technique can be defined as “mother, give birth to me back.” The patient is seemingly pulled through the birth canal, forcing him to experience severe stress and birth trauma. To dive inside yourself, you need to lie down and begin to use conscious breathing through vigorous inhalation and relaxed exhalation. It is believed that in this case, forgotten memories of the intrauterine state, birth and early childhood years begin to appear in the patient’s soul. Doctors believe that in this way they can find the same childhood fear that later led to psychosomatic disorders in adulthood. Fear is removed, and the problems associated with it disappear. This way you can get rid of childhood complexes. Who knows, maybe the evil Babai or Santa became the reason for a person’s current failures.

Energy pendant. If you have ever watched a golf competition, you have probably seen that many players wear a strange pendant around their neck when entering the field. It has a triangular shape and is black or silver in color. In fact, this is not a fashionable accessory for golfers, but a kind of medicine for them. Players assure that Qlink products can recharge their biofield, restoring mental and physical strength. Only this invisible aura of a person exists? Today, oddly enough, even scientists with university degrees agree with this position, purchasing charlatan crafts to protect themselves from energy vampires.

Treatment of wounds with larvae. The world around us is full of insects, it’s stupid to try to hide from it. Some are beautiful, while others, like worms, are often associated with death and decay. After all, they feed only on dead flesh, and that’s the only way they develop. We are talking about fly maggots. These larvae, disgusting even in appearance, live in garbage heaps and graves. However, inquisitive healers have discovered an interesting feature of such insects - they can clean infected wounds. This method of alternative therapy is quite old. Today there is renewed interest in maggot therapy, as bacteria have appeared that are not afraid of antibiotics. But microorganisms cannot resist the voracious but non-infectious maggots. The worms are placed on the wound and begin to liquefy the infected tissue, eating it along with the bacteria. But the living flesh remains intact. Once eaten, the maggots are put back into the jar, awaiting a new patient. The happy healed person is discharged from the hospital, trying to quickly forget the methods of his treatment. Do you think this method is wild? But since 2004, meat meal larvae therapy has been officially approved in the United States.

Treatment with leeches. Few people can decide on hirudotherapy, treatment with leeches. They squeamishly prefer not to mess with these creatures, as with maggots. However, in this case, using such an unpleasant remedy can help. You just need to let the leeches frolic on the skin, sucking on the capillaries, this can give results! Just as Duremar once did, doctors today often use bloodsuckers to restore blood flow to limbs that have been torn off and reattached. In such a complex matter, leeches are beyond competition. Even Hollywood star Demi Moore admitted that she cleanses her blood with leeches - this helps her look noticeably younger than her age. Rumors include our singer Natalya Koroleva as a fan of this product. Only hirudotherapy has one interesting nuance: Before giving yourself over to be fed to worms, the patient must bathe in turpentine!

Beer Jacuzzi. Many alcoholics would like to bathe in beer, naturally, without paying for such pleasure. But in some places this can be done at a very high cultural level and for an adequate amount. Doctors believe that bathing in this foamy drink has its benefits. This is why today thousands of people visit Czech beer spas every year. People are sure that in this way they can heal the musculoskeletal system, saturate the body with vitamins (are they in warm beer?) and simply relax. The latter, by the way, is not difficult, because alcohol can also be absorbed through the skin. For such procedures, special dark beer is produced, which cannot be drunk. A 20-minute treatment procedure costs 24 euros, the price also includes 2 mugs of aged beer taken internally.

Ozone therapy. This technique has been the subject of debate for many years between supporters and opponents. The first believe that ozone treatment is a miraculous method that can help in the fight against cancer, AIDS and most other diseases. As a result, the gas is obtained from chemically pure oxygen, saturating people’s bodies with it in various ways. These could be injections, mini-saunas, etc. But American health authorities believe that ozone is a toxic substance. It cannot be attributed to pronounced medical properties. But what to do with the results of clinical studies, which often say the opposite? After all, ozone successfully counteracts fungi and bacteria; however, it also contributes to the development of atherosclerosis. It is curious that at a temperature of minus 120 degrees, ozone turns into a thick indigo-colored liquid.

New body transplantation. The death of people due to injuries or serious damage to body organs not related to the brain is quite common. In medicine, there is an opinion that if you quickly cut off a head, the brain continues to experience severe pain for several seconds. Even if the severed head is poked into the open eyes, they will instantly close, reflexively defending themselves. Even in the Middle Ages, executioners knew that the heads of criminals they cut off continued to live for another half hour, gnawing on the baskets where they were thrown. This was discovered after it turned out that these same baskets need to be changed quite often. Even in recent history, more than a dozen facts are known when doctors sewed on their patients heads that were practically separated from the body, which were actually held on one cervical spinal cord. In his fantasies he draws a possible future. This is how the concept of whole body transplantation was born. It is assumed that there is no need to transplant the entire head, along with the organs of hearing, vision, and teeth. It will be enough just to transfer the healthy brain itself to a new, healthier storage facility. Theoretically, there are no barriers to this, as there are to a heart, liver or spleen transplant. As soon as scientists achieve success in the regeneration of nervous tissue, it will immediately be possible to think about the ethical side of issues in brain transplantation.

Head transplant. The topic of transplanting an entire head - with hair, teeth and even piercing holes - will be unpleasantly offensive to many scientists. But back in the 1950s, the Soviet surgeon Demikhov transplanted the heads of young puppies into adults. The experiment as a whole was considered unsuccessful, but one of the experimental creatures was able to live with someone else’s head for almost a month! True, the donor's head really disliked its recipient, periodically and painfully biting him. However, the problem of tissue rejection was not solved then. In 1963, American doctors conducted a similar experiment. The test monkey also did not live long, biting constantly. And the Japanese decided to keep up by sewing a second head on a laboratory rat. According to scientists, the secret to success was the use of low temperatures. In today's biology, there is a fashionable experimental direction - stem cells. They can subsequently turn into any others. And in the matter of head transplantation, special hopes are placed on these cells. Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania were able to use stem cells to heal the dissected spinal cord of a mouse, giving hope to thousands of disabled people with the news. It seems that sewing on a severed head will soon become possible. People dream that they will soon be able to exchange their decrepit body for a young one. The only big question is whether such operations will be available in the near future; besides, one should be wary of criminal plots of growing bodies “for sale.”

Man is a weak creature, he is susceptible to physical diseases, which often cause a lot of trouble. However, despite all the difficulties, “homo sapiens” still learned to overcome them. Today we will tell you about ailments invented by mankind...

In those years when nothing was known about such a science as pharmacology, people acted exclusively empirically when treating diseases; before finding the right medicine, traditional healers “killed” more than one hundred people. Today, some of the methods of treating our ancestors are, to put it mildly, shocking, however, you should not negatively perceive the information that you will now become the owner of.

Syrup for children with added morphine

Hundreds of years ago, children were treated with morphine syrup; if a child suffered from an illness that caused severe pain, doctors “treated” him with narcotic syrup, and for a while the baby returned to normal, plunging into a state of sleep. If he died, and this happened quite often, it was believed that this was the result of an illness incompatible with life, and not of treatment at all.

Heroin used to treat cough

Do you remember what remedies are used to treat coughs today? Quite pleasant potions and herbs, but meanwhile, our ancestors “thought out” to get rid of this illness with the help of heroin; it was enough to take a certain amount of the narcotic substance, and the cough would go away. Naturally, no one suspected the consequences!

Treating depression with an awl driven into the head

In 1949, the scientist who developed such a strange method of treating depression was awarded the Nobel Prize. Almost 70 thousand people agreed to craniotomy to get rid of psychological problems. Of course, after they hit your head, it’s unlikely that you will find the time or desire to discuss far-fetched problems. By the way, this method of treatment was commonly called lobotomy.

Urine therapy

The method of treating diseases of the human body with the help of urine is used to this day, many people really believe that they can get rid of ailments by drinking a glass of urine on an empty stomach, well, that’s their right...

Treatment of female hysteria with vaginal massage

A disease such as female hysteria is rarely discussed in medical circles today, but in the old days it was common and treated with vaginal massage. The doctor used his hands to help the woman relax and get rid of irritability and aggression.

Treatment with poisonous mushrooms

Using the poisonous fly agaric mushroom is still a mystery, but the fact remains that this method is really effective! However, you should not experiment and eat cut into pieces and fried fly agaric, it must be prepared according to a special recipe, only in this case there will be no consequences!!!