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

Hydroelectric Baths for Migraines

Library of Congress

A bath + electricity = danger. Am I right? In the late 19th century they didn’t seem to think so. Back then, chronic migraine sufferers and psychiatric patients were treated by taking a warm bath with electrical currents passing through the water. Doctors soon became weary of this sketchy treatment plan and today we use pharmaceutical drugs to soothe migraines.

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