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PracticeReference and ClassificationVerifiedTreatments significant chiefly as historical medical practice, largely superseded or discredited by modern evidence-based medicine.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 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(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 50Faith HealingHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeFaradic BatteryHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeFeed a Cold, Starve a FeverHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeFowler's SolutionHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeGalvanic BathHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeGalvanism (Medical)Historical and Premodern Treatment PracticeGemmotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeGua ShaHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeHagiotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeHidaklonHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeHigh-Dose Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow TransplantHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeHirudotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeHydropathyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeHydrotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeInsulin Shock TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeIron LungHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeKaolin and morphineHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeKlosterfrau MelissengeistHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeLeech TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeLithia WaterHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeLobotomyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMaggot TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMagnet TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMaibaronHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMalaria TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMalariotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMedical CannibalismHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMercurial TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMercury TreatmentHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMesmerismHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMithridateHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMoxibustionHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMustard BathHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeMustard PlasterHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeNarcotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeNaturopathyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeNeuroreflexotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeOsteopathic Manipulative TreatmentHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeOsteopathyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeOzone TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePatent MedicineHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePelvic MassageHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePerkins Patent TractorsHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePneumotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePoulticeHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePowder of SympathyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePrimal TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePsychic SurgeryHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePurgative TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticePyrotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment Practice← Previous123Next →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.