Home›Historical and Premodern Treatment Practice›All Historical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBrowse ByAll Historical and Premodern Treatment PracticeReference and ClassificationVerifiedTreatments significant chiefly as historical medical practice, largely superseded or discredited by modern evidence-based medicine. Belongs here: Bloodletting and Trepanation. Does not belong here: a historical treatment whose modern descendant remains standard practice today, such as Variolation, the historical precursor to vaccination, grouped under preventive and immunologic intervention because that is the category its modern form belongs to.FactsAll Historical and Premodern Treatment PracticeSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonModality KindWell-attestedhistorical-premodern 1All Historical and Premodern Treatment PracticeFilter Results128 entriesTreatment CategoryAllDiscredited and Harmful Medical Practices (15)Energy and Vibrational Therapies (15)Folk and Ethnomedicine Practices (29)Humoral and Classical Medicine Practices (32)Hydrotherapy and Balneotherapy (10)Manual and Body-Based Practices (18)Traditional Surgical Practices (8)Type/ClassificationAllDiscredited and Harmful Medical Practices (15)Energy and Vibrational Therapies (15)Folk and Ethnomedicine Practices (29)Humoral and Classical Medicine Practices (32)Hydrotherapy and Balneotherapy (10)Manual and Body-Based Practices (18)Traditional Surgical Practices (8)Era (Origin Year)All-8000 (1)-3000 (1)-1600 (2)-1552 (1)-1550 (1)-1500 (1)-850 (1)500 BCE (1)-450 (1)400 BCE (2)-100 (1)1496 (1)1574 (1)1667 (1)1779 (1)1786 (1)1826 (1)1874 (1)1888 (1)1892 (1)1895 (2)1909 (1)1913 (1)1917 (2)1918 (1)1927 (2)1935 (1)1937 (1)1957 (1)1964 (1)1967 (1)StatusAllDiscontinued or Obsolete (119)Standard of Care (2)Treats (Condition)AllAnemia (2)Arthritis (4)Asthma (1)Atopic Dermatitis (1)Autism (1)Bone Fracture (1)Breast Cancer (1)Cancer (3)Cardiovascular Disease (1)Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (1)Cholera (3)Dizziness (1)Drowning (1)Edema (1)Emphysema (1)Epilepsy (4)Fever (1)Fistula (1)Hemorrhoids (1)Hepatitis (1)Herniated Disc (1)HIV/AIDS (2)Hysteria (2)Joint Dislocation (1)Leprosy (1)Lymphedema (1)Lymphoma (1)Malaria (2)Melanoma (1)Migraine (2)Multiple Myeloma (1)Multiple Sclerosis (1)Nausea and Vomiting (1)Neurosyphilis (1)Osteoarthritis (2)Osteomyelitis (1)Pain (9)Plague (1)Pneumonia (1)Pneumothorax (1)Psoriasis (4)Respiratory Failure (1)Rheumatic Fever (2)Rheumatoid Arthritis (1)Schizophrenia (2)Seizure (1)Stroke (1)Syphilis (4)Trachoma (1)Tuberculosis (2)Typhoid Fever (1)Ulcerative Colitis (1)Varicose Veins (1)DiscovererAllCesare Mattei (1)Mikao Usui (1)Sushruta (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50AbhyangaHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAcupressureHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAcupunctureHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAfrican Black SoapHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAguamielHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAlternative Uses for PlacentaHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAnimal MagnetismHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeApitherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeApplied KinesiologyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAromatherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAuriculotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeAutologous Blood TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBalneotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBed RestHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBiomesotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBioresonance TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBlistering TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBlood Irradiation TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBloodlettingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBonesettingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeBone-SettingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCarbogenHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCataract CouchingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCatholicon (Electuary)Historical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCauterizationHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeChicken-Blood TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeChiropracticHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeChromotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeChrysotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeClimatotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeColloidal SilverHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeColon CleansingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeColon HydrotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeColonic IrrigationHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeConversion TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCouchingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCounterirritantHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCraniosacral TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCrenotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCrocodile OilHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCrystal HealingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeCupping TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeDetoxification (Alternative Medicine)Historical and Premodern Treatment PracticeDoktor Koster's AntigaspillsHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeEar CandlingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeElectrohomeopathyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeElectrotherapeuticsHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeEnemaHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeEnergy MedicineHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeEye ShavingHistorical and Premodern Treatment Practice123Next →Sources1. History of medicine (Wikipedia)Wikipedialead paragraphQuote, lead paragraphThe history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.