Ancient Egyptians had a basic idea of how the body works. Here's how they did it

The germ theory of medicine, the idea that our illnesses are caused by microscopic bacteria and viruses, is only about 150 years old .

Bloodletting was prescribed for basically everything, headache, cough, upset stomach, you name it.

In Babylonia , for example, if you ground your teeth in your sleep, a doctor might assume that your ancestors were angry with you and were prescribed for you to go and lick the skull of a dead relative because that would make them happy.

In the 1500s , they had a treatment called half a mouse, and then applied that half of the mouse to the boiler wart or bruise you're trying to get rid of.

Scientists have been warning for years that overuse of antibiotics could lead to super bugs that are antibiotic resistant and create worldwide pandemics.

But using fungus instead of antibiotics works a little bit differently, but it could be an effective treatment for people that are recovering from surgeries.

Leeches secrete anticoagulants that keep the blood from clotting, and baby flies make them sound cuter.

Megatherapy mostly died out after the discovery of penicillin, but it's starting to make a comeback.

Trepanation is used as a treatment for epidural or subdural hematoma and is now called a craniotomy # 5 eating poop.

Fecal bacterial therapy is when they take feces poop from one person and put it into another person to introduce bitter gut flora into their system.