Tag: medical

Imagine having the opportunity to sell your cadaver while you are still alive. Healthy Cadavers The science of surgery is at present largely directed toward…

Imagine eating meat that had been dragged through the spit of workers with tuberculosis and then thrown onto dirty, wooden tables to pick up splinters…

In the 1800s, ether and nitrous oxide parties were popular. They were parties where people would hang out, inhale ether and laughing gas, and act…

Unwanted wives were not the only people getting committed to the insane asylums of long ago. The asylums were also a dumping ground for unwanted…

Called the “greatest healing invention of the age,” the electric belt made for men was a popular devise in the late 1800s and early 1900s….

Ambulances evolved out of the need to get wounded soldiers off the battlefields and into the hands of surgeons and doctors. For civilians, doctors would…

Arsenic is a poisonous chemical element. It can be found in many medicines and treatments for various conditions. Arsenic poisoning occurs when someone is exposed…

Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) is a herbaceous annual plant that has been used for centuries in witchcraft and medicine. The plant is native to Europe but…

An Irish cure cure a toothache was to drink water from a human skull, but this use of the human skull as medicine is fairly…

The article below gives us a fascinating look at the morgue master in Washington DC in the early 1900s. The description of the “new” morgue…