Drilling (Trepanation)
Modern scientists do not know why the ancient peoplesof the stone age have made the trepanation of the skull. But they did it with periodic consistency, in fact there are irrefutable proofs of archaeologists who report finding more than 450 drilled skulls in Europe. Obviously, stone-age people had a suitable tool for such an uncomplicated procedure and many patients remained alive after these interventions. We can only imagine why they did the trephination.
Perhaps they treated migraines, or did medical intervention to extract the tumor, or perhaps they did it for religious practices. It is known that the Tibetan monks practiced a hole in the forehead
and they inserted a wooden wedge, hoping to open the "third eye".
Antimasturbatsionny corset
Eighteenth-century European medicine organized a true story on widespread self-gratification between the two sexes. They have spread horror stories at the same time they develop a thinning of the brain and lead to hair loss. Caring parents wore a special corset for their offspring for the night they face the "disease".
Iron vice
Mysterious tool used in gynecology of the past
Mercury treatment
Against a fairly common disease - syphilis, in antiquity was used mercury. It was supposed to help remove the excess of "slime". And when the patient became ill with poisonous metal, this once again demonstrated to doctors that medicine works. Naturally, such a radical treatment of external use and internal of mercury, had no positive result, but it led to the patient's death due to the body's intoxication.
Medicine of the past
Interesting facts from the history of medicine
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