Tag: medical
10 Strange Wart Cures from Folklore
There are as many wart cures as there are days in a year. I honestly never understood why these charms were so popular until I…
3 Horrific Reports of Hydrophobia in the 1800s
Hydrophobia, more commonly known as rabies, was a very real and very serious problem in the early United States. While it was commonly spread from…
Spanish Flu Death Rate In Army Camps Increase 1918
The newspapers of 1918 were filled with news about the Spanish Flu that was sweeping across the planet. Here is one of the brief reports…
Small Pox Vaccination Debate In 1918
Turns out the great vaccination debate has been going on for quite some time. This article from a newspaper published in 1918 is about the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
