Tag: medical
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….
