Jun 15, 2020
Waist Belts! Wear them at your own peril!
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Waist Belts! Wear them at your own peril!
The greatest destroyer of health, life, and beauty in the civilized world!
Questionable Medicine Challenged
It should be a no-brainer. Researchers called for an end to the funding of questionable medicine in a paper presented in the journal, “Trends in Molecular Medicine.” They argue that supporting trials of practices like Reiki and homeopathy wastes time and money.
They offer plenty of science to back their stance. One of their arguments rests with budget constraints. The public has questioned…
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The body and how it reacts to alcohol
How to tell what alcohol does to the body. From "Alcohol: its nature and effects", by Charles A. Story, 1868.
"Where presidential bee buzzes"
"No further explanation is needed."
If you want to be president, you best have an approbative bee.
Vaught's Practical Character Reader. L. A. Vaught, 1902.
Odd request but there was a time when radium was in everything. Was it used much in snake oil type stuff?
Very very yes. I actually have tons on that that apparently I haven't posted (or at least haven't tagged - I know I've had this stuff for a LONG time and I wasn't great at tagging at first), but I have a bit on radiation...just not much on radium, itself, outside of radium toothpaste.
Have a few minutes? Or an hour? Sawbones is great, funny, and has episodes on both patent medicines and quack-a-rific radiation therapy (mostly involving radium). Now that I know I haven't posted much on the subject, I'm definitely gonna get back to that.
Funniest or oddest natural remedy
This may be taking "funny" in a bit of a dark way, but Pliny the Elder used to tout oleander as a cure for snakebites.
Not only does it not work at all, but it actually intensifies the symptoms of neurotoxic venoms, and is straight up deadly on its own, let alone given to an already envenomed person.
I always found it funny, because the direct translation of his writings state that the oleander flowers and leaves can "cease the symptoms from the bite of the snake". Which, yes, they can! By killing you! No symptoms, then!
"The static head breeze. Direct method."
Static electricity applied to the head via highly-conductive non-contacting crown. Used to "treat" many conditions, from headache to peripheral neuraligia.
Medical Electricity and Rontgen Rays. Sinclair Tousey, 1910.