Saturday, October 3, 2020

Top Ten Historic Ways to Beat Plagues


From the April 18, 2020, ListVerse  by Ben Gazur.

Photos and information accompany this.  I'm just listing them.

10.  Smells

9.  Masks

8.  Fires

7.  Kill cats

6.  Bloodletting

5.  Quarantine

4.  Cordon Sanitaire

3.  Whipping yourself

2.  Mercury, unicorns and goat stones

Well worth a read.  A lot of these "cures" are extremely interesting.

1.  Live chickens

Read 'Em and Weep.  --RoadDog

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