Modern medicine provides solutions to a myriad of health problems, but to get to this point of development had spent long centuries, during which healing techniques which, viewed from today's perspective, are we unusual or extraordinary were used. This is a list of some of the strangest medieval medicine methods.
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Leeches.
These little buggers were used to clean the blood, with the idea that they could suck diseases were on the person. Eventually positive effects were tested in the treatment of thrombosis, arthritis and clot formation.
Needles in his eyes.
Similar to the sewing needles, doctors inspected the patient's eye to clear his vision; It was not a very effective technique and presented high risks, so it was abandoned with the arrival of the influence of Islamic medicine to Europe.
Astrology.
The law required all healers to consult the patient's chart and compare it with the alignment of the stars before making an intervention.
Bottled flatulence.
During pandemics of bubonic plague and plague, some doctors believe that the disease was transmitted through fumes and vapors that must heal. For this it indicated inhaling flatulence preserved in a jar, or live with flatulent animals, such as goats.
Mummy dust.
In ancient Egypt it was used for the most diverse evils, dust of mummies, which were due to desecrate graves and scrape the body to get the remedy.
Trepanation.
This brutal intervention was made head in order to ward off evil spirits that had been installed in the head of the patient or victim. It is clear that not infrequently a small mistake caused the death.
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