When X-ray was discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895, the New York Times was so skeptical that they referred to the medical breakthrough as the “alleged discovery of how to photograph the invisible”. It took a very long time for medical doctors and technologists to figure out safe treatments and new developing technology safely. While the history of medicine is constantly developing and improving, it is filled with wild stories of bizarre medical treatments and procedures that aimed to make people feel better.
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