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Surgeon’s Knife Takes Chance in a Thousand

The history of medicine and surgery is filled with great success and great failure. In the early 1900s, surgery was being used to treat a…

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Disinfect Kisses With a Lemon

Since they could not make kissing illegal, doctors recommended sucking on a lemon after kissing your sweetheart. It was meant to kill off any yucky…

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10 Gruesome Tapeworm Realities From Over 100 Years Ago

In 1902, a 34-year-old man was admitted to the London Hospital for having a tapeworm. He didn’t survive the medication they gave him and upon…

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Live Lizard Found In Woman’s Stomach

Swallowed a lizard? This one really makes me rather queasy. After eating a shrimp salad, a woman became very ill. A doctor was called in…

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Boy Grows a Silver Tooth

I am not a medical expert, so to me this story sounds almost like the type of article that would be published in Weekly World…

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4 Weird Blood Experiments From Over A Century Ago

The 1800s were a strange world when it came to medical experiments. Doctors, scientists, and curious neighbors were testing out all sorts of bizarre theories….

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