Heroin for your kid’s cough. Radioactive water for energy. An ice pick through the eye. These are the dumbest medical inventions in American history, and every one was worse than the disease.

A hundred years ago, there were almost no rules. Anyone could bottle a miracle cure, print a promise on the label, and sell it in drugstores, catalogs and even hospitals. Some of these inventions were harmless and hilarious. Others poisoned, blinded and killed the people who trusted them, and a few were still being used in American hospitals in the 1960s.

In this countdown, we go through 39 real medical inventions and treatments from American history: who invented them, what they promised, what they really did to people, and how each one finally ended. From snake oil and electric belts to radium water, morphine syrup for babies and the ice-pick lobotomy, this is the dark, strange and sometimes unbelievable history of quack medicine in America.

All 39 inventions in this video:
39. Dr. Scott’s Electric Hair Brush
38. The Thermocap
37. Dr. Young’s Ideal Rectal Dilators
36. The Vibrating Belt Machine
35. Albert Abrams’ Oscilloclast
34. The Violet Ray Wand
33. The I-ON-A-CO Magnetic Collar
32. Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
31. Cocaine Toothache Drops
30. Coca-Cola, the Brain Tonic
29. Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil
28. The Heidelberg Electric Belt
27. Dr. Kellogg’s Electric Light Bath
26. Asthmador Cigarettes
25. More Doctors Smoke Camels
24. Tapeworm Diet Pills
23. Safe Arsenic Complexion Wafers
22. Blue Mass Pills
21. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root
20. Bayer Heroin
19. The Revigator
18. The Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope
17. The Tricho System
16. Lash Lure
15. Koremlu
14. Vita Radium Suppositories
13. The Radon Health Mines
12. John Brinkley’s Goat Glands
11. Twilight Sleep
10. Bloodletting
9. X-Rays for Ringworm
8. Insulin Shock Therapy
7. Mercurochrome
6. Fen-Phen
5. DES
4. Radithor
3. ???
2. ???
1. ??? (still happening in American hospitals in the 1960s)

We’re not spoiling the top 3 here. Watch to the end.

Which one shocked you the most? Tell us in the comments, and tell us which invention we should cover next.

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Next week: 39 Craziest Flying Inventions in US History (That Actually Flew).

Everything in this video is based on historical records. Nothing here is medical advice. Some products are shown for historical and educational purposes.

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Jess and the Ancient Ones – Talking Board (Lyrics / Letra)

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