The crucifixion from schizophrenia and heroin cough: the strangest methods of treatment
Categories: Health and Medicine | History
By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/the-crucifixion-from-schizophrenia-and-heroin-cough-the-strangest-methods-of-treatment.htmlRemember how the media was in a fever, when in 2015, the year in West Africa, broke the Ebola epidemic? Scientists and authorities were preparing for the worst, raising money and developing protective suits. And in Africa, and the United States panicked citizens were willing to resort to any, the most insane methods of treating dangerous diseases injections of bleach, the "nano-silver", string concerts, heart of a Cobra and eyeballs porcupines.
We offer you to think about the strange and bizarre methods of treatment of diseases known of the history of medicine.
Protective suits physicians of London during the great plague.
A British witch let the blood of another, XVII century.
Sweatshop bed. Around 1830.
Pumping water to a patient with arthritis. 1846.
A mentally ill woman whose hands chained to the walls of the chamber. Germany, 1890.
"Calming the chair," Dr. Benjamin rush. Founded in 1811.
The American flu mask during an epidemic of "Spanish flu"
TB patients to breathe fresh air on the banks of the Thames. 1936.
"Glycogenin" is a medicine cough on the basis of heroin. Beginning of XX century.
Two patients with polio girls in the apparatus "artificial lung". USA, 1950-ies.
"Vitamer" all diseases. Brazil, 1926.
"Cigars joy" — a patent remedy for asthma and bronchitis. London, 1881.
"Sweatshop hut" for the treatment of smallpox. XIX century.
Keywords: Disease | Treatment | Epidemic
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