Five selections of Tondemo treatment methods that were actually used such as 'mummy powder' and 'fart suction'



Unlike modern medicine, which emphasizes science and evidence, in the past, medical treatment methods that were half-magical were rampant, such as

weapon ointment , in which medicine was applied not to the wound but to the weapon that injured the person. Among such occult medicine, ScienceAlert, a scientific news site, has carefully selected and introduced five particularly strange ones.

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◆1: Fart pot
Plague epidemics have terrorized society many times throughout history, and the Great Plague of London in the 1660s was no exception.


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Physicians at the time were convinced that the plague was transmitted through foul-smelling, poisonous air, and that combating the plague with equally strong odors would reduce the chances of contagion. There was also a London citizen who kept livestock in.

An even more affordable idea to stock up on bad odors was a pot filled with farts. It seems that people at the time thought that they would use this to prevent the plague by quickly sniffing farts when they smelled a dangerous stench, such as the smell of corpses piled up on the street.

◆ 2: Milk transfusion instead of blood transfusion
Before the discovery of blood types, half of the people who received blood transfusions died. For this reason, attempts to transfuse animal blood began around the 17th century, and in the late 1800s, it became common to use cow, goat, and even human milk instead of animal blood. About.


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Doctors at the time used milk instead of blood transfusions in the hope that the white fat particles in the milk would replace the white blood cells. Nonetheless, it seems that it did not take long for the treatment to inject milk into the blood vessel, as it often caused the patient's death.

◆ 3: Mummy powder that is not a mummy power
Medieval European apothecaries sold powder made from crushed Egyptian mummies as medicine, and since the 12th century, the mummy medicine 'Mumia' has been used to treat bruises, headaches, injuries, cancer, gout, depression, and more. Now used for treatment.


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But in the 16th century, doctors realized something was wrong and began to question Mumia's effectiveness. In fact, the ancient document that was the basis for this treatment claimed that 'the natural asphalt used in mummification heals wounds and fractures and is also useful as an antidote,' which was mistranslated. The mistake was that the mummy itself was believed to be a medicine.

Even after it was found that Mumia was ineffective, its popularity persisted, and it is said that the price of mummy powder was listed in the drug price list made by a German pharmaceutical company in 1924.

◆ 4: Whale Corpse Hotel
At the end of the 19th century in Australian hotels, a strange treatment of sleeping in a whale corpse was popular. In 1899, newspapers described a treatment that involved taking rheumatoid arthritis patients to a dead whale, making a hole in the carcass, and telling them to sleep in it for two hours.



A drunken man loitering on the beach near a whaling station found a dead whale and plunged it headfirst into the rotting fat, claiming that it sobered him up and cured him of his rheumatism. It spread.

◆ 5: Cabbage panacea theory
Cabbage is still valued today as a vegetable rich in vitamins and dietary fiber, but in ancient Rome it was used for various treatments as a health panacea better than any other vegetable. For example, the eminent Roman scholar Pliny the Elder wrote, 'It would be too much of a task to list all the tributes to the cabbage.' Beyond its use as a food ingredient, Pliny the Elder recommended pouring warm cabbage juice into the ears to treat hearing loss.

In addition, the Roman historian Cato the Elder , in a book about the health benefits of cabbage, said, ``Cabbage is an excellent laxative that promotes digestion, and the urine of those who eat cabbage works on anything.'' says.

The use of cabbage, which is rich in ideas, has been passed down to the present day, and there has been a topic on social media about the discourse that ``wearing cabbage releases toxins from the body and reduces fever.''

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