Insane Old-School Medicine That’ll Make You Glad You Weren’t Alive Back Then

Toxic Mercury for STDs

Early Modern England

Calomel (a toxic mercury chloride) and Arsenic (a poisoning metallic chemical) to treat syphilis and other STDs. The side effects of taking this drug were rotten gums and destruction of the intestines.

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