Tag: medical
Human Energy Trapped in a Bottle?
Science and medicine was simply weird back in the early 1900s, especially when one doctor claimed that he captured and bottled human energy. Here is…
The Death of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng 1874
Chang and Eng were siamese twins who toured Europe and the United States. Their condition aroused a lot of curiosity at the time and the…
Early Report of Polio Called Infant Paralysis
Polio was originally called “infant paralysis.” The newspaper report below comes from 1922, 33 years before a safe vaccination was discovered and used on the…
4 Historical Facts About Malaria Experiments
How did people get malaria and where did it come from? Scientists in the 1800s and early 1900s were on a mission to find out…
5 True Stories Of Lobotomies
Icepick lobotomies are the stuff of horror movies for many people. It seems barbaric to destroy parts of the brain to make a person conform…
What You Never Knew About Snake Oil
While it is an old remedy, snake oil is still used today to help cure different ailments. In Oriental medicine, the oil from the Chinese…
Doctor Promises To Restore Sight With A Pig’s Eye
The article below comes from 1922. There were many articles in the early 1900s about transplanting animal eyes into human eyes, but never any follow…
10 Strange Old Uses For Castor Oil
During World War I, newspapers reported that Italian battle heroes were horrified by the thought of taking a dose of castor oil. Anyone who has…
Early Beliefs About Polio
Polio is caused by a highly contagious virus. It is transmitted from one person to another through the environment. The fecal matter from one infected…
Doctor Makes Blood in 1912
The medical science news from the early 1900s makes me stop to scratch my head. The stuff that was reported was… well, it belonged in…
