Doctors would diagnose a patient by tasting their earwax
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While they did pay attention to other symptoms in order to make the diagnosis, one important part of the process was tasting the earwax. If there was a change in the taste it meant there was a high probability of a disease. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Athletes’ could sell their sweat to make medicine
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Athletes used oil to cover their bodies before training. Afterwards they would scrape the oil off that was now mixed with their sweat and then use this product as a medicine to help those with muscle tension. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Unusual ways to cure women
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Women were treated very differently from men back then. A lot of the medicine used for women included dirt because it was considered that women were susceptible to “impurity”. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Women used sneezing as contraception
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After sexual intercourse women who did not want to get pregnant would employ this very unusual form of contraception. They would sneeze. Yup, that’s what they did thinking it would help them not get pregnant. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
No toilet paper, just rocks
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but in ancient Greece they were also used to wipe people. The poor had to use rocks while the wealthy could afford sponges on the tip of sticks. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Corpses stopped from rising again
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Many graves were discovered where the bodies of the deceases were pinned down with rocks and other heavy objects. This is likely because Ancient Greek were also afraid of zombies and the dead rising again. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
High beauty standard included small genitals
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Most well detailed sculptures of Ancient Greece portray handsome men as hairless, athletic and with really small genitals. This is because back then it was considered beautiful and big genitals were considered vulgar. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Athletes would work out and train nude
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People back then were not ashamed to show their bodies and they would always go to the gymnasiums naked in order to exercise and train. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Proposing to women by throwing apples
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Back then throwing an apple to a woman actually indicated a display of love and in many cases it was a way to propose to a women for marriage. If only we could do that today.. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Women with unibrows were considered beautiful
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What is today considered ugly was back then considered a symbol of beauty and sexuality. Having a unibrow was a much desired and envied trait among women.