10 Terrible Things That Once Were Legal and Normal

10. Drug Treatment

100 years ago, this substance was not considered dangerous. Rather, he could be taken to any pharmacy. Cocaine was also recommended to children as sleeping pills. It was also used to cure coughing and ease toothache. And like any drug, there were a lot of points and cocaine syrup ads.

9. Sending children by mail

Sounds like a joke, but at the beginning of the 20th century, it was absolutely legal to send a baby in the mail to your relatives. The cost of transportation cost about 15 cents, provided the child weighed no more than a standard shipment. Perhaps this way parents saved money when sending their children to their grandparents.

8. In the Baby Window

In the 1930s, in Britain, you can see wire cages in the windows of many houses. With these artificial objects, babies inhaled the fresh air, while their mothers were busy doing household chores, and they broadcast oracles. It's incredible, but these cages are considered safe. What did parents at that time think?

7. Garden Hermites

Some rich people have made other people suffer just to fulfill their crazy whims. In the eighteenth century, in Europe, there was a rich man's way of gardening a” Hermit guard” personal. They were forbidden to wash their hair, fingernails, and had to live in a “pell<x3 cells. It was all in order to show the living “deconction” for his guests.

6. Doubtful Treatment

In the past not so far away, doctors had no idea of the need for disinfectation and used all sorts of strange methods: bloodshed for all diseases, cutting the tongue to cure” stammering, lobotomy and electric shocks. Even for the most successful doctors back then, for example, as American orthopedic surgeon Lewis Sayure (lying below with a patient), surgery with a deadly result was not uncommon.

5. Radioactive Toy

In the 1920 ' s, radiation was not seen with as much concern as it is now: It was simply not considered too dangerous. The <x0mic> ”, as the mini-laborator you can see, was well known. This contained radioactive elements such as polonium and uranium, but, of course, microscopic doses.

4. Zoo for humans 

Long ago, the fairs of Asians and Africans as wild people was a “laughing<x1 popular> in the West. And many times they put themselves next to the monkeys, to “the” Darwin theory.
This shameful practice was adopted for a long time, and this photo shows, Belgium Zoo in 1958.

3. “Excursions” for asylum

In the past, patients in psychiatric environments were treated terribly and weakly. This was also true of the payment of maintenance for their loved ones.
But it seemed little for the owners of these psychiatric institutions, known as asylum. They decided to organize a small business. For a moderate fee, anyone can come in and see the mentally ill and even punish them with a stick.

2. Body parts collections

Today, only a psychopath would collect body parts as trophy. But a long time ago, this was a common practice: high - ranking people had special collections of parts of the human body, and soldiers sometimes took the skulls of their enemy. It was just what a WWII sailor did, as can be seen in the following image, with the skull of a Japanese soldier.

1. Tobacco recommendation during pregnancy

Nowadays, there are many laws prohibiting smoking in certain countries, but 70 years ago, American doctors recommended that pregnant women smoke to fight capitulation. Women were allowed to smoke at the hospital after giving birth. We cannot imagine that medicine would still have that thought.