Name: あなたが信じられないような10の禁止された医療行為が存在していた! (10 BANNED Medical Practices You Won't Believe Existed!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:49:05.000Z
Duration: 9 min 46 s
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I'm Dr. Matt, and I've got the perfect cure

heartache, handshake, corn flake, tummyache.

All right, well, obviously I'm not a doctor,

But, there have been some insane treatments

And what's really disturbing is that these were all commonly used in the past.

you're going to hear about today, they'd be in jail.

It definitely sounds crazy, but there was a time

when people thought that the best way to treat syphilis was to ingest Mercury.

damage to internal organs, or simply death.

to cure ailments, heal wounds, and even prolong life.

They also used to use Mercury ointments, pills,

and lotions to treat all sorts of ailments,

attributing the side-effects and deaths to the underlying condition the patient already had.

Nowadays, we're weary about Mercury in fish.

Back then, they were drinkin' it like it was an ale.

It's hard to believe, but in the early 1900s,

Today we know that exposure to Radium causes cancer,

but back then it was used as a cure for mental illness,

diarrhea, malaria, and was even thought to prevent aging

And what better way to get this stuff into consumers' bodies than to sell it as bottled water?

That's right, Radium-infused water could be purchased in many stores

alongside Radium-infused chocolate, radioactive toothpaste, and,

Between 1850 and 1900, in an attempt to stop the practice of restraining the mentally ill

and locking them in dark cells, yes, that actually happened,

doctors turned to a method they genuinely thought could help:

Strapping patients into a chair and spinning them until they lost consciousness.

They used a simple chair with a lever system to spin the person around.

the contents of the patient's brain around,

knocking out conditions like schizophrenia.

Used alongside other unbelievable practices like high-dose laxatives, insulin comas,

and ice-water baths, it took far too long for doctors to learn that this really wasn't working.

Often declared as one of the most barbaric mistakes ever perpetrated by main-stream medicine,

lobotomies involved driving a large ice pick into a patient's head.

the spike was pressed into the prefrontal cortex of the brain,

Doctors truly believed that whatever the outcome,

the patient would still be better off than they were pre-lobotomy.

Side effects included severe brain damage,

John F. Kennedy's sister who, after a lobotomy

was reduced mentally to an infant, and never recovered.

How...how did they ever think that driving an ice pick

through the eye into the brain was ever a good idea?

Number five is the electrical impotence cure.

By the 1900s, everybody and their brother had a miracle cure for anything.

And disturbingly, many of them were for male...

Anywho, as fascination with electricity was on the rise,

medical practitioners turned to it to solve impotence.

It was widely believed that a shock provided energy

not only was there no real science involved in it,

Dudes these days be buyin' these online enhancement pills,

and all they really needed was a car battery and some jumper cables.

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あなたが信じられないような10の禁止された医療行為が存在していた! (10 BANNED Medical Practices You Won't Believe Existed!)

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