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Antiquated Antidotes

We will explore the medical mavericks of the past and rediscover the gruesome tales behind our modern field of medicine.

Tag: Doctor

February 12, 2025February 12, 2025

Clean Hands are a Mother’s Best Friend: Updated

Nastassia Foose's avatarPosted by Nastassia Foose in Horror, Individuals, Victorians

Doctors were performing autopsies, then taking their unwashed hands which contained cadaveric particles, and infecting the women they later assisted in childbirth. 

December 7, 2023

The Kooky Ketchup Cure-All

Nastassia Foose's avatarPosted by Nastassia Foose in Quackery

Wouldn’t it really be something though to cure your aches and pains by eating french fries with a side of ketchup? 

April 4, 2022

Goat Testicles for Virility: John R. Brinkley

Nastassia Foose's avatarPosted by Nastassia Foose in Horror, Individuals

Between 1917 and the mid-1930s, John Brinkley made a fortune on his “revolutionary” surgical procedure which involved placing goat testicles into men’s scrotums to cure infertility and improve virility. What a BAAAHHH-d idea

July 6, 2021

Remembering Jonathan Letterman

Nastassia Foose's avatarPosted by Nastassia Foose in Individuals

Dr. Letterman’s story, despite his importance to the field of military medicine, has been largely, forgotten. I hope that this post changes that.

May 28, 2021

The Devil with a Cyanide Syringe

Nastassia Foose's avatarPosted by Nastassia Foose in Horror, Individuals

Petiot was arrested in 1944 and admitted to killing at least 60 people.

May 3, 2021

Doctor H.H. Holmes: The Owner of Hell’s Hotel

Nastassia Foose's avatarPosted by Nastassia Foose in Horror, Individuals

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer no more than a poet can help the inspiration to sing.”

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