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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
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 [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 12:10 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Health · Tagged disease, diseases, Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, Fields’ disease, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria, illness, kuru, Microcephaly, Morgellons, Paraneoplastic pemphigus, polio, sickness, small pox, top 10 rare diseases, Von Hippel-Lindau
The death toll from it has yet to reach 100, but an outbreak of swine flu has gotten huge amounts of attention in the media in recent weeks. Even though regular flu viruses have killed thousands in that time, swine flu is all over the news because of worry that it could escalate into a [...]
Posted by Evan Andrews on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 1:01 am
Filed under All, Health · Tagged antonine plague, black death, bubonic plague, cholera, cholera pandemics, death, diseases, flu, infectious diseases, influenza, Malaria, Medicine, mosquito, mosquitoes, outbreak, pandemic, plague, plague of athens, Plague of Justinian, smallpox, spanish flu, swine flu, third pandemic, Typhoid, typhus, virus, viruses
Viruses can often be seen in a very poor light, but they aren’t all bad. In fact, we humans probably wouldn’t exist without viruses. Author Michael Brooks writes about the upside of sharing the planet with these ruthless killer machines. Here are the top 10 reasons to love viruses. Ah-Choo!
10. The virus gave us complex [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 1:09 am
Filed under All, Health, Nature · Tagged antibiotics, cure, diseases, dna, Evolution, Health, lethal diseases, Life, mimivirus, nucleus, outbreak, scientists, virus, viruses