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In today’s world when we think of healing someone, you probably think of medicine, vaccinations, and other common things that every doctor seems to use. However, in the past, before medicine wasn’t nearly as advanced as it is today, there were plenty of bizarre techniques used in order to heal or cure someone.
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Posted by Ash Grant on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Filed under All, Bizarre, Health · Tagged bloodletting, cons, cure, depression, disease, diseases, ECT, Electroshock Therapy, fire cupping, flu, Hirudotherapy, leeches, lobotomies, lobotomy, Maggot Debridement Therapy, maggots, Malaria, malaria drug, medical, Medicine, mental illness, moxibustion, nobel prize, therapy, top 10 bizarre healing techniques, trepanation, vaccination, virus, viruses, Walter Freeman
Unlike most kinds of petty crime, a confidence game, or con, takes an enormous amount of skill and forethought to pull off. When done right, in many cases the grifters who perpetrate them have not actually done anything overtly illegal–they’ve simply used lies and manipulation to get their victim, or “mark,” to willingly hand over [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under All, Crime · Tagged Bernard Madoff, card game, con game, confidence game, cons, false good samaritan, gambling, good samaritan, grifter, grifters, Pig in a poke, ponzi scheme, Scam, Scammers, spanish prisoner, Thai Gem Scam, The Badger Game, The Embarrassing Check, The fiddle Game, The Sting, The Wire Game, three-card monte