10 Bizarre Medical Treatments

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 24 March 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Medical science has a long and storied history of trying out cures and procedures that later strike us as wacky. And they're still at it today! Learn about bizarre treatments, from opium for children to tobacco smoke enemas in this episode.

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0:47.6	This is Stucky Should Know.
0:49.6	Why are your eyes closed?
0:50.9	I was a creep in the mouth.
0:52.4	He sounds like a sweaty balls out of ballroom.
0:55.5	He's a sweaty ball skit.
0:56.7	I'm starting out when I'm...
0:58.9	Man, that just...
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