Description
The History of Medicine is a wild one. How humans figured out cures and even developed surgical procedures that saved lives! Often times what seemed to work in the past was later found to be detrimental to health and then abandoned. Today on Weird History we go into various aspects of the history of Medicine, the good, the bad, and the out-right miraculous!
What is your favorite part about the history of all things medical? Let us know in the comments!
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - What It Was Like Going To A Doctor In Wild West
00:10:11 - What It's Like to Be In an Iron Lung
00:21:34 - Bizarre and Bloody Practices of Medieval Barbers
00:33:22 - A Doctor Tried to Resurrect George Washington From the Dead
00:45:52 - What It's Actually Like To Have A Lobotomy
00:57:04 - The Crazy True Story Of The First Plastic Surgery In History
01:07:13 - Walter Jackson Freeman II The Champion Of The Lobotomy
01:22:33 - Horrifying Things We Used To Use As Medicine
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