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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.
Below is a [...]
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
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
Fad diets try to offer a quick fix for fast weight loss, and, even if they work, the result is short-term and the pounds come bouncing back. The biggest problem with unhealthy fad diets is that you shouldn’t stay on any of them for extended periods of time because they are generally unbalanced nutritionally. Many [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 12:04 am
Filed under All, Food, Health · Tagged alcohol, Cabbage, cabbage soup diet, chicken soup diet, coffee tea, dairy products, diet, diets, evening snack, fad diets, fish, food restrictions, fried foods, green vegetable, Health, junk food, malnutrition, Medicine, red meat, Sleeping Beauty, sugar alcohol, top 10 lists, top ten lists, unhealthy fad diets, water, worst fad diets
It used to be that poisoning was the murder method of choice for those cunning villains who wanted to “get away with it.” However, following advances in forensic science, poisoning no longer allows murderers any anonymity. Nowadays, the use of poison is so easily detectable it is comparable to the murderer writing a confession. “And, [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 6:07 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Crime, Health · Tagged arsenic, Bizarre, brown recluse, castor bean, Crime, cyanide, death, Health, hemlock, heroin, medical, Medicine, poison, pufferfish, Snake, snakes, strychnine, Venom
Being a scientist, doctor or a researcher takes dedication and a sometimes a thirst for knowledge…at any price. These ten researchers took the ultimate challenge and tested their theories on themselves, sometimes with fatal results. Here are the top 10 researchers who used themselves as lab rats.
10. Jonas Salk (b. 1914 d. 1995)
Known universally for [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Filed under All, Bizarre, Health, History, People · Tagged Albert Hoffman, albert sabin, carl wilhelm scheele, Controversial, cure, Daniel Alcides, death, discovery of oxygen, elie metchnikoff, english chemist, german chemist, inoculations, jonas salk, Joseph Priestley, Kevin Warwick, mechnikov, medical, medical experiment, Medicine, Metchnikoff, nobel prize, phagocytes, polio vaccination, polio vaccine, russian physiologist, vaccination, Werner Forssman, William J. Harrington
