In past times, the population was exposed to very strange and completely experimental procedures, in addition to drugs without proven efficacy studies. Such treatments today would be considered absurd. So check out some bizarre methods ever used to cure diseases in ancient medicine.
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Check out now the strangest treatments used to cure some diseases:
In the 19th century, if you were involved in an accident that resulted in a deep cut, the patient could walk out of the doctor's office with a huge spider's web wrapped around the wound. This is because it was believed that the material had anticoagulant and healing properties.
A very traditional substance in oriental medicine, in the 19th century, snake oil was used to treat joint pain and rheumatism. As the material has omega 3, which has a mild anti-inflammatory action, this fever spread throughout the world.
In Britain in the 1600s, many believed that some people developed a stutter because they had a "hard tongue". So, to soften it, the solution was to drink mulled wine. In contrast to the treatment proposed in the 19th century, which consisted of cutting the patient's tongue in half.
Asthma was seen as a result of airway obstruction. Therefore, his treatment consisted of swallowing a live fish, without chewing. In this way, he was responsible for “eating” whatever was blocking the air passage.
In the 17th century, the treatment of constipation was done through an enema, which is the introduction of some liquid through the anal route. As much as this is still a method used, at the time, doctors recommended mixtures with honey, wheat or corn flakes, herbal tea and even coffee, which is not done today.
