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Doctors attributed the decrease in vampire headaches and vampire backaches to the 1897 discovery of vampire aspirin.

The ailment known as “sheep neck” is easily remedied simply by removing the sheep from your neck.

Source: Practical Advice for Patients by Sarah Kavanaugh, 1911.

Source: Dr. Wiley Approves by Dr. Ingrid Wiley, 1904.

For years, doctors believed that people with certain ailments could be cured by pouring coffee directly into their frontal lobes. But this was wrong, just so, so, wrong.

Figure 782. Early X-ray machines were notoriously unreliable.

Figure 942. Early oral thermometers were uncomfortable at best.

Most early methods used to aid choking victims failed to address the issue.