Top 10 Dark Treatments In History You Wouldn't Want On Your Worst Enemy | Marathon 

My dad had severe 3rd degree burns on his arms and hands, from the elbows down. They said it would be too painful to scrape and cut the tissue out, so they cleaned off the cooking oils, which hurt a lot, and used sterile maggots to remove the dead flesh gently. As a result, he was able to have both arms saved and the nerves grew back. The Egyptians used maggots in the same sort of methods 3 thousand years ago.

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Maggots and leeches are still used and are very effective at their specific uses. Also, trepanation is still used to indeed relieve pressure from brain bleeds and swellings

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As a person who has suffered with migraines my entire life…I actually understand how the idea of trepanning became a treatment. There have been numerous times I would have paid a Doctor to make a hole in my skull just to stop the pain.🖤🇨🇦

Trepanation is still used today. In the case of a TBI (traumatic Brain Injury) the brain often times will swell. If this becomes dangerous, a 'bore hole' will be drilled into the skull thus elevating the pressure around the brain and allowing it to heal properly. Depending on the size of the bore hole, they are usually left to close on their own.

Back in the 60s when we had chips (french fries) and ketchup we called them bones and blood. We were so nice then!!

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I love your attitude towards addiction and addicts. Love seeing other people that have a heart.

My cousin, just a couple of years ago, had breast cancer and they stitched sterile maggots into the incisions at one point to clear away the dead flesh.

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The history of medicine is absolutely amazing! I became obsessed with the podcast Sawbones because of that!

It's amazing to see how some of these past medical practices are still being used in what we now call "modern medicine".

It’s fascinating that maggots and leeches are being used again in modern medicine

This guys such a good presenter ,so much character

Some pretty cool little factoids you shared. The weirdest ones are a tad scary, or just funny. Since I was in the medical field, the really old ways of treating patients are fascinating, but often disturbing. It's amazing how people even lived through some of those procedures. You, my young friend, are adorably humorous. Keep up the good work!

Well actually I grew up in a Hispanic family with the belief that “blow” does numb a toothache obviously we the younger generation never used it but my grandparents and ancestors would use it for toothaches

"a blood clot in the brain." It's called a "stroke".

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Observations: - in the chart of pooping things, is "i" a human? - liverwort is an herb, not actual liver lmao

Amazingly blood draining is beneficial. For the body has 10 pints of blood that it is constantly recycling so if a person was to donate 1 pint of blood their body would have to remake that pint at the same time recycling the rest as usual which strengthens the overall blood circulation. Secondly doctors do use leeches today when they perform surgeries on areas of the body that swelling could cause severe complications example neck surgery for when the leeches remove the excess blood from the neck when swelling occurs it will not nearly be as problematic.

Never in my life did I ever think I would hear the words "butt blunt" paired together. 🤘

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Unfortunately, I know that bagging farts is very much possible. When my granddaughter was about 5 years old, she decided to play a prank on me. Being the encouraging grandma I am, when she asked me if I wanted to smell the "fresh air" she bagged up from outside, I said "of course honey!" I would have NEVER imagined she would fart in a bag and give it to me to smell, but that's what she did! SHE thought it was extremely funny. I on the other hand was pissed lol. Evil little child she is lol 😆

"Top 10 dark treatments you wouldn't wish on your enemy" FLOWERS

Makes me extremely blessed to be living in modern times...some of these "treatments" are absolutely horrifying and I really can't fathom how our ancestors went through what they did!

I actually would actually want my worst enemy to go through all of these.

Trepanation is believed to be a treatment for headache/migraine. I've had headaches that make me want to drill a hole in my head to relieve pressure.

Our current treatment for Rabies isn’t much better… yes you can do shots if caught quickly enough, but only one person has survived full blown rabies, and that happened because doctors medically put them into hypothermia

I wish coke and dope were still over the counter! 😂

"I would rather have sciatica. Be sore all the time." It's not a soreness with sciatica. It's a bone deep pain that makes you tired from the physical exertion of even just sitting down. It wears your mental strength down that you are also tired from that. It's a constant stabbing pain that feels like it's burning when you try and rest, even if you're leaning against something. If you've ever run so much that your legs strain and ache, you're not even on the scale of bare minimum pain. If you've ever been so sick that your whole body can't move, even if just to lift your head to drink something, you are only just scraping the surface of the weariness and fatigue your body goes thru. Get a hot needle and start stabbing because it lasts all day. It keeps you awake at night. Your body is so tired, so done, that the mere act of relaxing is also painful, and at times even more so than the pitiful attempts to walk you endured for the simple luxury of going to the toilet. You don't fall asleep. You pass out from the shear mental fortitude of trying to fall asleep. I say trying because even tho you're exhausted both mentally and physically, you can't comfortably fall asleep. There is no comfort. And that pain you've been feeling all day. That burning of not just the muscle but the bone itself. Is so far only at your hip. The rest of your leg from the outside of your hip, twisting down your leg to the inside of your knee and all the way down to your ankle, feels like you're being jabbed with a thin, blunt, object, that never quite relieves pressure as it prods you over and over and over and over again. So you seek refuge. An ice pack, ibuprofen, a warm shower maybe. All extremely temporary. So you talk to your Dr. Maybe get a Rx for hydrocodone. Only you find out that even it doesn't work. If drinking urine really did give relief, from my personal experiences, I would do it.

Omg, I love your shirt. One of his funniest characters 🤣

Leeches are still used to this day and medical treatments to bring blood flow to a particular area, especially after something like surgery when bloodflow can be disrupted. This is to prevent the death and decay of flesh, that is needed to heal properly.

Some of these are very viable,we're just weaker now things are too easy

Definitely want to see a part 4

If anyone is interested, the dude who lost his jaw from the radiation treatment, there's photos of it. And mannn its gnarly.

The number one was also used to cure migraines which was thought to be demons. One was performed moder day on a woman who medication did not work for.

My man Taylor is great at delivering information! Big Fan! Give him a rise!

4:10 "Merbromine" obviously a Mercury/Bromine tincture. I don't recall that, I do however remember "Mercurachrome" It looked exactly like the Merbromine. You put it on stings, scrapes, scratches, etc. I looked for it a while back and couldn't find it. I guess the gov't banned it too. Anyone remember either of these?

I mean, coke would definitely be effective for lethargy. So there's that.

I always thought the reason for the invention of chainsaws is horrific.

Regarding the drinking of urine: it's filtered through sand first and the water recondensed for drinking. On the use of urine for open wounds: evaporate the stuff down to a paste and it's highly antimicrobial.

Loved your presentations. And, these were all horrifying 😳

I wish they taught us this in GCSE and A-Level history or let us watch these videos then maybe I would remember everything😂😂

I once went into the birthplace of Cornflakes- hell I went to school right in a building next to it! It’s not it’s original size due to the fires, but boy is it a beautiful building. And everyday I would wake up I’d smell the fruit loops being made

The smoke enemas bit had me dead. XD

Actually Some doctors do prescribe heroine today under different names like dilauded, hydro morphine... Ironicly it's largely use to aliveat the side affects of heroine withdrawal. Kinda weird but supposedly it works.

I'd definitely wish all of these on my worst enemies

This guy is new, however, I am too, kinda. Two weeks into your awesome channel. Keep up the good work guys and gal's! 🙏🤘

Regarding trepanation, there’s a video somewhere with a blonde lady doing it to herself with a dentist drill, she has sun glasses on tied with duct tape so blood wouldn’t flow to her eyes, it’s weirdly calming, because she is super calm while doing it to herself. Prety sure it’s in the Guinness book of records

I just want to say that rubbing cocaine on your toothache actually works amazingly well...

I wonder what the snake does with your enemy and all the other items 😓😓😓😓

Okay, the video was great, and very informative. But I also HAVE to mention-Dude, I LOVE your Matt Foley (Chris Farley) shirt!!! That is AWESOME!! Where do I get one????

one of these treatments on this list might actually kill covid 😂😂

@ about minute 14, when discussing ice baths- there's a mention of a tonic containing milk and liverwort- which gets referred to as "....eww, liver milk....." and i just wanted to clarify that liverwort is a plant, kinda similar to/related in a way, to the moss family ;) so no super gross bloody liver milk er anything- still not exactly a very appealing choice for cocktails though, huh? Best wishes

Hey ant heads it's very innovative and really very effective and for people who didn't have stiches it was a vital to close those wounds!! They show this in the movie apocalypto. It's a very good movie and I think it's a shame more people have not seen it.

OMGoodness!! 😲. However, I love and enjoy your content. Thank you. 😁

leeches are still used cause it can be used when for example a finger is replanted after being amputated. interesting fact for everyone if you didn't know that

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14:50 I actually like corn flakes😂 without sugar too😂😭

There used to be an amusement park ride called the roto room. It was circular and you would stand against the wall then it would spin until you stuck to the wall and the floor would drop as you stuck there. It was actually pretty horrible but we kids did it anyway lol. The spin Dr remedy reminded me.

I had a great aunt who had a lobotomy in Manitoba Canada Apparently she was way worse after that

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17:05 I couldn't think of who her remindEd me of... but finally came to me... he reminds me of Chris Delia

19:54 I can’t stop laughing

I remember mercurychrome in the 80's that stuff worked like a charm on cuts

That one skull had 3 holes in it!! Boy, he must have had a lot of demons! LOL!!

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I love this dude! 😀

Tgats crazy the fact used to actually care about ppl ❤...🖤

Actually the ant's heads as stitches sounds quite clever.

Hemp seeds are the most prevalent source In Omega fatty acids in the entire plant kingdom

Love and peace from the uk 🇬🇧❤

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Lmao it’s really interesting that they used coke for toothaches cause when I used to use I would just put a little coke rock on a tooth that hurt

Snake venom is an actual anfiinflamatorial

Cool,a. A NEW HOST! (THE ONE IN THE ALL BLACK SHIRT). HE'S FUNNY AND MAKES ME LAUGH. HAVE HIM ON MORE OFTEN!! GREAT CHOICE!! LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING HIM MORE OFTEN!!🤣🤪😎🥳😭🤡💋👍

I absolutely love your shirt! Oh yeah the video was cool.

Trepanation, or whatever its modern counterpart is called, saved my friend's husband's life. He had severe bleeding on the brain after an accident at work, and if they hadn't drilled a hole into his skull to relieve that pressure and to let the excess blood drain out, as well as to stop the bleeding through that hole, he wouldn't be here today. He does have slight mental impairment due to that injury, but he's doing pretty well considering what he went through, thankfully. Lobotomies always freak me out. Anything in or near the eye, or going up through the nose into the skull - ugh!! No, thank-you!! Kellogg was a follower of the man who originally came up with Graham Crackers, which weren't the yummy treat they are today. They both thought that eating bland food and being vegetarians would keep people from a certain kind of self indulgence. This is a very basic thing of their beliefs, and of course there's a lot more to it than that.

Love your shirt!!

The second guy that host is hilarious makes me laugh every time

Honestly my favorite actor/guide or whatever you wanna call them is him :)

Wow straight into it

Love the shirt dude 👍

Red dead redemption had a reference to the snake oil article, I think it was like a side mission

Oh you're having a mercury reaction? Put more mercury to see if that solves the problem

Medical history is so fascinating to me YIKES

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Love your shirt !

They do prescribe it still… Just in pill form so no one thinks anything of it. It’s called fentanyl, Percocet, oxycodone, hydrocodone, dilaudid, etc. You could even take a large amount of Imodium, which is OTC.

My rather die then go thru again is a lumbar puncture aka: a spinal tap. I've had 2 of them and I dissolve into tears just being told I need one. I've had major complications in child birth that was 48hrs long and that wasn't remotely as painful!!!

Bloodletting as a therapy (fun fact- it's the root behind the word "phlebotomy") is STILL used today for certain diseases, including polycythemia and hemochromatosis.

I love your shirt!!!!! And, your video

The second host reminds me of a younger/fresher Chris D'elia. 😂 😆 or Gotye! Maybe he's just somebody that I used to know. 😉

yes, please do another

Hahahahahaha @ 20:39 definitely reminded me of Pauly Shore from Biodome!!! 🤦🤣🤣🤣

Thank goodness we have evolved in science and medicine.

I learned somewhat about Trepidation from a manga called Homunculus. The MANGA, not the butchered version on Netflix. And wow was it a psychological trip and mind break. But it was pretty good and it held alot of serious topics/ discussions, and mature themes to think about. At least that what I got from it.

Conversion disorder, formerly called hysteria, a type of mental disorder in which a wide variety of sensory, motor, or psychic disturbances may occur. It is traditionally classified as one of the psychoneuroses and is not dependent upon any known organic or structural pathology.

"jar of farts" - Taylor, you really got me on that one! Near spit out my beer!! Haha XD