A History Of Medical Quackery

"Strange, weird or wonderful? You decide. The Vintage practices selling false hope. This practice preyed upon persons who suffered from diseases that may have had no complete medical cures. Unregulated once, this practice thrived with false or unproven claims of cures using strange ingredients or bizarre materials, often with dire consequences for the end user."

Click on this link for the details. It's a shame that, with today's knowledge, this sh!t still is a major problem. The cure? Universal education in critical/science-based thinking, beginning at an early age (to negate the religious indoctrination that most go through as children).