Tag: medical
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…
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…
