Nowadays, modern medicine offers a great deal of benefits that caters patient with different diseases. Treatments are more specific,effective and medical practitioners are becoming more efficient. However, during the old times,people were scared to consult doctors because of the following medical procedures that had brought horror into their lives.
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#1 Topical Mercury
Mercury was once used as topical antiseptic but now considered as poisonous due to its life-threatening effects to the body that has inhaled its vapor.
#2 Dangling Treatment
This device is a treatment used for Scoliosis which allows the hand and feet to be dangled in order to align crooked backs.
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#3 Burr Holing
Epilepsy and other mental disorders was believed to be cured by making a hole on the head by the use of a drill bit.
#4 Blood Shedding
It was believed that the body is sick because of "bad humors" that needs to be drained.
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#5 Malarial Fever
Known to be the classical sign of a mosquito- borne infectious disease called Malaria which was thought to cure syphilis, a bacterial disease through sexual intercourse. Could it be a disease to cure another disease?
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#6 Leech Alert
A segmented worm characterized by a suction cup at both ends,also known as bloodsuckers are being medically used until today to remove congested blood or blood clots.
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#7 Insecticide Spray
A woman sprayed with DDT delousing powder to free her from lice but not from the effects of global warming or cancer.
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#8 Light Therapy
Children in the picture have eyes and genitals covered in front of a strong lighted lamp,holding hands to have a maximum skin exposure to increase the production of Vitamin D in the body known to help them fight the bacteria causing the Tuberculosis.
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#9 Worm Therapy
Live maggots are being placed on a part of a body (such as a limb) that is non-healing and necrotic for the purpose of cleaning up the wound.
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#10 Poop Injection
A poop is being injected up the butt to realign a healthy bacteria in the colon, also known as fecal bacteriotherapy.Sounds odd but this one is actually still used today as it is 90% in treating Clostridium difficile infection.
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#11 Skin Graft
Shows a picture of a man who underwent a reconstructive treatment wherein a skin was sewn into a tube and placed temporarily on his nose that eventually became the modern procedure for skin transplant.
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#12 Wonders of a Pee
Drinking urine was believed to be good to the skin and could cure allergies. Also used by Romans as a natural teeth whitener.
#13 Radiation Injection
In the 1960's, doctors in Maryland used radiation to treat acne by injecting it to the skin where it grew but did not seem to look a lot better than having a skin cancer.
