7. Pain Therapy
Some physicians in the 1800’s believed that pain had healing powers. It sounds foolish, but patients would mostly pay to get beat up.
8. Farts
During the Black Death, some doctors had their patients capture their farts in a jar and then smell them. Actually they believed that since the Black Death was caused by deadly gases so, deadly gases is only the cure.
9. Hot Irons
As horrifying as it sounds, at one time this was used to treat hemorrhoids.