http://www.toptenz.net Life, on the short list. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:25:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-bizarre-healing-techniques.php http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-bizarre-healing-techniques.php#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:40:23 +0000 Ash Grant http://www.toptenz.net/?p=4090 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. Below is a [...]]]> http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-bizarre-healing-techniques.php/feed 8 http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-rarest-diseases.php http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-rarest-diseases.php#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:10:39 +0000 Ash Grant http://www.toptenz.net/?p=3949 While we’ve all heard of diseases, seen someone with a disease, and had a disease personally, it’s unlikely that we’ve encountered a rare disease. In the non-medical world, people use and interchange disease to mean infection, sickness, illness, or something similar. In the medical world, a disease is an abnormal condition that impairs bodily functions [...]]]> http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-rarest-diseases.php/feed 2 http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-lost-cities.php http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-lost-cities.php#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:01:06 +0000 Evan Andrews http://www.toptenz.net/?p=3630 A city becomes “lost” when it is abandoned by its inhabitants and left to decay. This can be the result of war, migration, or natural disaster, but in each case these cities can act as a sort of time capsule, leaving a civilization frozen in history and waiting to be discovered. While many of these [...]]]> http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-lost-cities.php/feed 5