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PracticeReference and ClassificationVerifiedTreatments significant chiefly as historical medical practice, largely superseded or discredited by modern evidence-based medicine.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 28RadionicsHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeRadithorHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeRebirthing TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeReflexologyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeReikiHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeRest CureHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeRevalenta ArabicaHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeRoyal TouchHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeSee Clearly MethodHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeSemicarbazide-cadmium therapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeSeton StitchHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeShiatsuHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeSkunk OilHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeSnake OilHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeStamina therapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeTamagozakeHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeTar-waterHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeThalassotherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeTheriacHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeTilden's ExtractHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeTobacco Smoke EnemaHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeTrepanationHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeTrepanningHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeTui NaHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeUrine TherapyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeUvulotomyHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeXenotransfusionHistorical and Premodern Treatment PracticeZero BalancingHistorical and Premodern Treatment Practice← Previous123Sources1. 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.