Be GLAD for modern medicine... OR:

[MilDoc]

Try some ancient remedies:

for diabetes - a cupful of urine from a public latrine (given secretly of course)

for palsy or vertigo - mummy (yes, mummy as in Egyptian) extract

for bruises - decayed human cadaver

for worms - clear liquid feces

for eczema - fresh human blood injections into the skin

for wasp bite - tartar of human teeth

for sore throat - tincture of human navel (don't ask me!)

for anthrax or plague - human excrement

for epilepsy - the fresh blood from gladiators before it has cooled

for leprosy - bathing in fresh human blood

for rheumatism - human fat, pureed of course (there was also Woman Butter and Poor Sinners Fat)

for jaundice - a glass of urine

for hair loss - distilled hair elixir

for not right in the head - a snort of Spirit of Skull

Oh, and of course, mouse, goose, horse, and cow excrement for various conditions.

These are real "cures" from antiquity folks. And I keep wondering - 200 years from now, how wonderful our modern day "cures" will sound?

[Ed62]

I keep wondering - 200 years from now, how wonderful our modern day "cures" will sound?

Yeah, I've wondered the same thing. I guess they'll think we were Barbarians.

Ed

[jackellis]

I read a story the other day that someone is close to coming out with the device "Bones" used to use to diagnose patients on Star Trek.

[Bruce Cohen]

Great waker-upper

Hey Doc,

That's just what I wanted to read first thing in the morning.

I think I'll stick with anything in pill form.

Bruce

No wonder the life span back then was so short.

[dlminehart]

Wasn't too long ago that mental illnesses were "treated" by giving massive electric shocks to the brain. And how about most current cancer treatments: push chemical toxicity to the brink of killing the patient.