A History of Bizarre Medicine

In 1660, Eton schoolboys were punished if they...

What were often stuck on sick people to suck out their bad blood, this was thought to cure them!

During the middle ages, people believed you could cure scrofula (a disease) by touching what?

Did the church help or hinder the development of medicine? Why?

In medieval times, swallowing what helped to cure a sore throat?

In the middle ages, people believed that if you were sick it was because of what?

Today we use stitches, but back in the day, wounds were closed with what?

Blood and pus was not washed off the surgeons saw because... 

In the 1400s, what was put up the nose to combat the common cold?

To stop internal bleeding, a bag was hung around the neck containing...

People believed bad smells caused illness, so they carried a pomander containing...

Since people believed sin caused illness, they would often do what to themselves?

Huge syringes were used to squirt liquid medicines into the patients what?

Besides giving you a haircut, what else could a medieval barber do?

Throughout the middle ages, the examination of what was the main way of diagnosing a disease?

Puritans did not approve of bathing, they believed it did what?

The wives of German warriors used to do what to their husband's wounds?

Rheumatism sufferers believed that sleeping next to what would transfer the pain away?

During a full moon, to avoid madness, people believed you should do what?

Why would a surgeon cut a hole in a patient's head?