Almost anything that may seriously affect the body or psyche has a therapeutic option in modern medicine. In most instances, you may obtain a doctor’s prescription for an oral medicine for whatever is making you ill or giving you pain or suffering these days. If a more intrusive treatment is needed, it is almost seldom anything we haven’t heard of (or seen on “Grey’s Anatomy”). But it hasn’t always been this way. Remember that penicillin, the first genuine antibiotic, was not found until 1928. People attempted all kinds of rustic home cures and strange-sounding methods before medical research could verify the effectiveness of specific medicines or therapies. Here are some bizarre medical treatments that people thought were normal.
Bizarre Medical Treatments That Were Once Normal
Getting Rid Of ‘Bad Blood’
“Bad blood” has a different connotation today. Medical practitioners used the term literally, thinking that ill individuals had blood that was really “bad.” As a result, they practiced bloodletting. Practitioners would cut open a vein to drain blood or even use leeches to suck the blood right out of the skin to rid the patient of the diseased blood within. According to History, bloodletting (also known as phlebotomy) was popular far into the nineteenth century and was used to treat anything from a sore throat to the plague.
Getting Rid Of ‘Bad Blood’
