Tag: Philippa Martyr - article author
People dropped whisky into their noses to treat Spanish flu. Here’s what else they took that would raise eyebrows today
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We’re researching COVID-19 in a fast-paced world with new data becoming available all the time. We track which interventions work well and which ones don’t.
But in...
From Marie Kondo’s tuning fork to vibrators for ‘hysteria’: a short, shaky history of curing with vibrations
Vibration devices have been used to treat everything from ‘hysteria’
to hair loss. So Marie Kondo’s tuning forks and crystals are nothing new....