14856. Science Facts

A cure for whooping cough used in Yorkshire, England in the 1800s was to drink a bowl of soup with nine frogs hidden in it. You couldn't make it yourself – it only worked if you didn't know about the frogs. (And probably not then, either!)

14857. Science Facts

Romans dressed small wounds with spider webs soaked in vinegar.

14858. Science Facts

A Roman cure for epilepsy (having fits) was to bathe in the blood of a gladiator.

14859. Science Facts

People on the Pacific island of Chuuk use a love potion made from centipede's teeth and stingray tails.

14860. Science Facts

For centuries, it was illegal to cut up dead bodies, so surgeons and scientists had to pay criminals to steal the corpses of executed prisoners from the gallows in order to learn about anatomy.

14861. Science Facts

An old cure for tuberculosis consisted of cutting open a newly dead cow, pulling the folds of skin around your neck and breathing in deeply.

14862. Science Facts

A chemical extracted from leeches is used as a painkiller.

14863. Science Facts

Air conditioning systems are home to lots of nasty bacteria. And because they pump the same air around a building again and again, they are one of the best ways of spreading diseases to everyone in the building.

14864. Science Facts

Electric bug zappers splatter an aerosol of dead bugs around the room as the bugs explode.

14865. Science Facts

The Australian 1991 Inventor of the Year Award was won by the designer of a cockroach zapper. The roach is lured into a trap with food, then electrocuted.

14866. Science Facts

If you flush the toilet without putting the seat down, a fine aerosol spray of urine and faeces flies into the air of the bathroom – and some lands on your toothbrush.

14867. Science Facts

A stinging tree in Australia can cause intense pain and even death.Tiny hairs full of poison break off the leaves and stick to the skin, which can then heal over the injury, trapping the poison inside. Even standing near the tree can cause painful nosebleeds!

14868. Science Facts

A medieval cure for meningitis involved splitting a pigeon in two and laying the two halves, cut side down, on the patient's head.

14869. Science Facts

An old cure for a headache involved tying the rope used to hang a criminal around your temples.

14870. Science Facts

A common cure for all kinds of illnesses in the past was ‘bleeding' the patient. This could be done by the doctor making a small cut and putting a hot cup over the wound to suck out blood, or by putting blood-sucking leeches on the skin. Using leeches is being reintroduced by some western doctors.

14871. Science Facts

In England in the 1500s, horse urine was rubbed into the scalp as a cure for baldness.

14872. Science Facts

To catch the leeches for medical use, volunteers stand in rivers until the leeches attach themselves to their skin.

14873. Science Facts

A treatment for the skin disease psoriasis available in Turkey involves sitting in a bath full of live fish, which eat away all the flaking skin.

14874. Science Facts

In the late 1800s, the Egyptian railways were fuelled by burning ancient mummies because they were more plentiful than coal and wood.

14875. Science Facts

The Venus flytrap is a plant with fleshy traps that look rather like a clam, edged with spikes. If an insect lands on the trap, the halves snap shut, trapping it, and then juices from the plant dissolve the insect for the plant to absorb.

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