Tiny Treasures - What A Headache!
Ransack History
English - February 26, 2020 11:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHistory Education history education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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How do you treat a headache? Maybe you swallow a pill, maybe you lay down and close those peepers, or maybe you do what our not so distant relatives did. Find out more this week on Ransack History, Tiny Treasures....what a headache!
Sources:
Trepanation
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326281
https://www.livescience.com/62591-trepanation-explained.html
Medicinal Cannibalism
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-uncomfortably-common-practice-of-medicinal-cannibal-5971342
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
Electric Eels
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52689/5-bizarre-and-scary-historical-headache-cures
https://curculio.org/?p=67