9 Disgusting Medical Treatments That Might Just Save Your Life
If we've learnt one thing, it's that doctors sure love poop.
The human body is a beautiful machine ... until something goes wrong, then it's all squishy organs, oozy sores and appalling odours.
As well as some of the more unsavoury aspect of the diseased human body, some of the treatments to combat these diseases as just as, if not more, gross.
Medicine is all about the shiny white coats, neat little pills and powerfully disinfected operating theatres and, at times, it can feel as though things are getting distinctly medieval up in here.
Whether you're being pumped full of parasites, prodded with needles or even having one of your teeth implanted into your eye (no, really, more on that a little bit later), you have to come to the conclusion that a lot of doctors have some strange, vivid and twisted imaginations.
As well as having a great gross out factor, many of these bizarre and disgusting treatments also give us a unique insight into some of the weirder ways our bodies work.
So, here are some of the strangest, grossest medical treatments that would make even the most desensitised, internet dwelling, Grey's Anatomy watching horror movie lover squirm in their seat.