Tag: medical
Doctor Removes 210 Screwworms From Man’s Head
Screwworms: the stuff of nightmares. I can’t handle the sight of maggots, so the knowledge that there are flies that lay their eggs on living mammals…
Anthrax On Goat Gloves
Imagine putting on a new pair of kid gloves and coming into contact with anthrax? I questioned the validity of this claim, but a quick…
Doctors Can’t Be Trusted With Alcohol
It was the Prohibition. Alcohol was illegal and it was being removed from doctor’s cabinets, having been declared to have no medicinal value. U.S. Attorney…
Arm Sewn to Boy’s Face
This 1911 plastic surgery procedure is not for the weak of heart or stomach. The process describes cutting away malformed jaw muscle and attaching the…
Flour for Fixing Burns
For starters, the article below comes from a newspaper printed in 1851. It should not, under any circumstances, be used as medical advice. It is…
Doctors Wanted to End Kissing
1912 was the year when medical doctors were trying to get kissing outlawed. Not for religious reasons, but because they felt that kissing was gross….
A 1903 “Cure” For Insomnia
The medical discoveries and advice in the early 1900s flip-flops between scary and silly. I have seen everything from harvesting lightning to cure rheumatism to…
15 Incredibles Ways Urine Is Being Used For Beauty
You are flushing gold down that toilet, and I am not talking about dropped earrings and wedding rings. I’m talking about your pee: that stuff…
Husband Diagnosed With Leprosy and Wife Will Join Him on Leper Colony
In this article, found in a 1912 newspaper, a husband is believed to have leprosy. It was a frightening discovery at that time because there…
Spanish Flu Spreads Over All Of Europe
Claiming millions of lives, the Spanish flu filled the newspapers in 1918 to 1919. It was a frightening time when people were desperately searching for…
