Step into the weird and wild history of medicine, where treatments often sounded more like horror stories. Imagine being dunked into freezing water unexpectedly or having powdered mummy mixed into your chocolate as a cure-all! This video from the Weird History Channel explores the horrifying medical practices of the past—from injecting milk into veins to soaking in decomposing whale carcasses.

Discover how desperation, creativity, and mysticism led to these bizarre remedies, and marvel at how far we’ve come.