From cataract removal to pink eye treatment, many modern medicines have their roots dating back to the the Medieval Era. Here are ground breaking medical treatments from Medieval Times! Subscribe to Bored Badger:
The Medieval times are not known for their cleanliness! With no concept of sanitation, this place was replete with worms. And with great worms come great Tee sees. People back then had no idea how to treat most ailments and medicine was basically just a guessing game, and by pure luck some treatments actually worked. From leeches to full knitting. Here are the weirdest medival medical treatments that actually worked!
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I Love Gooold! Eating gold is a practice that dates back to Ancient Egypt and was still popular with royals & nobles in Europe throughout the medieval era. The Egyptian records referred to this as a magic or alchemical process called Ormus. The original treatment was ingesting Monoatomic gold- a rare version of the expensive metal, and its health benefits are still being researched today. It’s known that the body naturally contains a small amount of monoatomic gold.
Pop quiz hot shot! The black beige is the most notorious of mediviel deep teases. It wiped out an estimated 200 million people
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Leeches and mud letting are some of the more grew some and stew lid sounding of all the practices that doctors used to do. But it was actually one of the main go-to moves when a medical practitioner was presented with a sick person- to drain out their blood. At the time it was considered a “scientific” way of getting out the evil spirits that were
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Bald’s Eyesalve is a real-ol-timey combination of random ingredients like wine / garlic and some animal parts. Garlic is still used as a home cure all so there you already have something tried and tested there.
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Watercress is familiar still to every Englishman who’s had a cress & egg sandwich. It’s a little green and edible plant that you can grow in your garden. And interesting dental records revealed that the watercress was chewed on in an effort to save teeth from hot sing out in a time way
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Cauterizing a loon sounds incredibly rain full- but it used to be your only chance to live when you had a real big booboo, to burn it shut- with a hot piece of iron. You can imagine how rain full that sounds but it worked, and still does in a pinch.
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In England and several other countries, archaeologists dug up books with a recipes and reference to a weird mixture called dwale. It’s a potent concoction that was used as a rain skiller and anesthetic for primitive surgeries. It contains a strong mix of toy son us substances- hemlock, henbane, and the old milk of the poppy.
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The advancement to suturing sounds was a big leap for medicine back in the middle ages, and some surgeons took that a step further by successfully kitting broken bulls back together. They called it bull knitting, and it’s a lot like it sounds. There are natural groves in the bull, and when they are fractured, it’s obviously a pretty big deal.
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In Soutra, Scotland- archeologists found evidence for use of a medieval diet skill. It’s an herb we’ve mostly forgetten called Bitter Vetch, or, Lathyrus Linifolius. We always have had the have’s and have nots, but this herb was used by both groups. But the have’s and the not’s of the time were basically the pat and the car sing. Those nobles who wanted to trim off a few pounds would take the herb to curb their appetite like a modern diet hill. On the other side of things, it was also used by peasants in the droughts to survive meager weeks by suppressing their appetites when there was nothing to eat. Talk about having different problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what caused of a peasant revolt or two, when news like that leaked out.
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Snake Oil is now synonymous with quack sales of fake cures like Dr. Oz. But at the beginning, it was serious business for mild problems. Natural properties like omega patty add kids would help with inflammation and conditions like arthritis. Dating back to ancient china, snake oil was and is one of many animal products they use for perceived health benefits. Through the centuries, snake oil reached the west and gained peak popularity around the 1800’s.
At the later point, snake oil never really worked for the intended purpose, which could be just about anything. Any medicinal benefit would usually be induced by the placebo effect. When you take the snake oil- you’re definitely going to feel something. The user then believes
Its Answer time, according to Britannica, the primary culprit for the widespread proliferation of the black leg was the Oriental Rat Flea.
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One of the first, and most impressive leaps to modern science came down to some actual surgery that had been performed since the Medieval days. It’s cataract removal.
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