Scary healing therapies in the early twentieth century

Drinking contaminated water, mercury injections . are the methods of treatment that make patients 'needy' when hearing.

Horror treatments in history

Along with the development of science and technology, medicine today has made significant progress. And if at some point, you're still not satisfied with some of the medical treatments today, read the following article.

Because once you know about the horrifying methods of healing in the past, you will definitely feel yourself lucky.

1. Radioactive water - medicinal god or pharmaceutical element?

Radiation disaster is probably one of the biggest fears of mankind in the present time. But few expected that before the radiation became a killer, it was hailed as a " magic god " in the 1920s.

Before the effects of radioactivity were studied, radioactive objects were widely used in medicine, including drinking water.

Drinking water is stored in contaminated buckets, then used for use by patients. It is believed that this medicine will cure everything in the world, from arthritis to . impotence.

Pitcher of 'medicinal god' in 1920

Of course this idea is entirely based on . rumors, and there is no scientific evidence. It is only when a series of patients are treated with this kind of 'medicinal spirit' that dies, people are aware of its dangers and mistakes.

2. Stuff the ball into the lungs

This is a risky treatment used in the early twentieth century for tuberculosis patients.

Specifically, doctors will conduct surgery with two major steps. First they will "punch" small holes in the patient's lungs, then fill them with . plastic balls .

In theory at this time, plastic balls will help the lungs to heal themselves. However, this is certainly an anti-scientific method, since only new drugs can kill tuberculosis causing tuberculosis .

After a period of ineffective application, this method is gradually eliminated in most developed countries.

3. Kill lice with . gasoline

At the beginning of the twentieth century, patients with severe head lice could choose to bathe or soak their heads in . kerosene to free this nasty blood-sucking parasite.

In fact, this is a relatively effective method, although there is a potential risk of turning the patient into . if the carelessness brings fire close. If it were you, would you be willing to do so?

Today, modern medicine offers a safer solution, which is to use medical shampoo - which contains effective anti-lethal drugs.

4. Inject mercury to syphilis

Mercury is a deadly liquid metal. Once upon a time, however, mercury was considered the only way to cure syphilis - a sexually transmitted disease.

The patient is given an injection of anal mercury to treat syphilis

Today, syphilis can be treated relatively easily. But in history, syphilis is regarded as a cruel and frightening disease that can only be cured by . injecting mercury into the body.

Even later in the 1900s when medical knowledge was improved, the treatment of syphilis was still very devastating and dangerous.

There are times when patients have to eat arsenic - a poisonous substance, or make people sick with malaria to increase body temperature to kill syphilis.

5. Cure headaches by taking a dip in an electric bath

If the bath and electricity were a crazy combination, then by the end of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century - this was supposed to be a very popular medical therapy.

Doctors at this time recommended patients to treat chronic migraines by taking a dip in a bath, then passing a small electric current through.

Sounds pretty . creepy, isn't it? Most people are very skeptical of this method. Consequently, this treatment has gradually become . extinct over time.