Click Here to Read: The quackery cures of yesteryear: From doctors giving women orgasms to cure their ‘hysteria’ to cocaine to sooth toothache and tobacco enemas to revive drowning victims Strychnine – used in rat poison – was used to treat impotence before Viagra
Women carried weasel testicles in their bosom to work as a contraceptive The tapeworm diet fad started in the 1800s, promising no calorie control needed These and many more weird and wacky remedies have been outlined in a new book, Quackery: A Brief History Of The Worst Ways To Cure Everything By Claudia Tanner inthe Daily Mail website on October 17, 2017.