These fearsome doctors had a passion for lobotomies, blisters, and plague. Don't be surprised if after reading this article you become afraid to enter your doctor's office.
Henry Howard Holmes
Holmes was a doctor in the 1800s, although he is better known as a serial killer. In 1893, he opened a hotel in Chicago that was destined for murders. On the ground floor there was a pharmacy and various shops, but the higher the visitors climbed, the more they were terrified. Holmes had a hotel without windows, doors opened only from the outside, stairs led to nowhere, only he knew the plan of the building. The doctor locked his guests and employees in soundproof rooms, which were intended for torture. He used many methods, did not stop at anything. He burned people with a blowtorch and placed them in a gas chamber. Then he threw the corpses into his laboratory, which was in the basement, where he carefully cut out organs, and prepared bones and skeletons for sale to medical schools. Everything that he did not find use, or burned,or threw it into a pit with acid. Holmes was arrested in 1894. Although he is credited with only nine victims, and he confessed to 27 murders, in fact there are many more victims - there are about 200 people.
Stubbins Firff
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, a yellow fever epidemic raged, killing thousands. Physician Stubbins was not discouraged, however. He firmly believed that a terminal illness was not contagious and that the world did not need to be afraid. To prove his theory, he decided to directly link his activities to bodily fluids from various infected people. He began experimenting and rubbed vomit into small cuts on his body. The disease did not manifest itself, then he poured liquid into his eyes, fried it to inhale the vapors, and even drank it all. Then he began to smear the patient's saliva, urine and blood all over his body. He had failed to contract yellow fever and was elated to be able to prove his theory. But the doctor made a mistake - he used the fluids of patients in the later stages of the disease,that is, they were no longer contagious. Firff published his erroneous conclusions in the thesis "A Treatise on Malignant Fever."
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Henry Cotton
Henry Andrews Cotton, M. D., was director of the Trenton Mental Hospital from 1907 to 1930. He believed his patients were insane because of infections lurking in their bodies. So he cut them open and dismembered whether they wanted it or not. Henry had a crazy method - he began to remove the teeth of his patients, because he thought that there might be an infection under them. If after this the patient's condition did not improve, he switched to the tonsils and sinuses. If they still didn't get better, Cotton continued to remove the testicles, cervix, stomachs, gallbladders, ovaries, and spleens. Without antibiotics, the postoperative mortality rate was very high. Ironically, the mad doctor killed his patients "with" infections. Fortunately, after the investigation, Dr. Cotton's activities came to an end.
Francis Willis
He was a physician and clergyman in Lincolnshire in the 1700s. He was admired for his seemingly successful treatment of the mentally ill, or "infidels," as they were called at the time. His treatment included impressive and neat attire, exercise, and fresh air. Willis' results were well received enough to attract the king himself. When King George III went mad, he was taken to the famous doctor for treatment. Willis prescribed the usual physical method of work, but also tried to keep his royal patient in a straitjacket. Subsequently, Francis became an incredibly popular physician.
Josef Mengele
He was one of the doctors at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. The despicable doctor had a great love - experiments on people. He was attracted to physical deformities, eyes of different colors and twins. His experiments were fueled by the desire to prove that heredity is superior to the environment. He hoped to boost the birth rate of the Aryan people after he learned how to improve the chances of conceiving twins. His experiments included unnecessary amputations and infecting twins with deadly diseases. If one of the twins died, Mengele would kill the other in order to carry out comparative analyzes after their autopsy. Mengele's abhorrent practice earned him the name "Angel of Death". After the war, he fled and no one saw him again.
Farid Fata
This doctor has crippled over 500 people. He told them that they were sick and dying. The problem is that it isn't. Fata deliberately misdiagnosed hundreds of healthy patients, then forced them through chemotherapy and radiation therapy, hoping to cash in on their treatment. Fata promised his patients that they would get better, he gave them hope to keep filling his pockets. While his really sick patients were dying, hundreds of healthy people suffered from the side effects of unnecessary cancer treatments. Their teeth and hair were falling out. When the truth came out, many were left crippled and actually sick. On July 10, 2015, Fata was sentenced to 45 years for his crimes.
Walter Freeman
With the advent of Walter Jackson Freeman II, the popularity of lobotomy began. Freeman imitated the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt, but he had other ideas as to how the procedure should be performed. With the help of his partner, neurosurgeon James Watts, Freeman began performing hundreds of experiments. Walter's methods were too harsh, but he continued his procedures, drove around the country in his "lobotomobile" and performed thousands of lobotomies. He never wore gloves or a mask while working, and on one occasion he killed a patient. After many patients died as a result of questionable methods, Freeman was forbidden to perform his operations.
Shiro Ishii
The medical student had a strange habit of growing bacteria like pets. By the late 1920s, his fascination with microbes led to the development of a bio-weapons program. Ishii conducted trials, tested various methods of dispersing bacteria, including firearms and bombs. His test subjects? Chinese prisoners of war. It is estimated that tens of thousands have died from bubonic plague, cholera and anthrax. Shiro was also an enthusiastic supporter of human experimentation. His procedures included simulated strokes and heart attacks, forced abortions, and induced frostbite and hypothermia.
Karl Klauberg
He worked in Nazi concentration camps, an ideal place to find test subjects. Klauber thought he could solve the Nazi's biggest problem, that is, sterilize the Jewish race. Looking for a cheap and easy way to sterilize women, the creepy doctor injected formaldehyde directly into their uterus. He did not use anesthesia or worry about the raging infections that women might soon have. Many died from his experiments, and those who survived (an estimated 700 women) were injured and rendered sterile. In 1945, Karl was arrested. He received 25 years, of which he served only seven.
Andrew Ure
In 1818, Scottish scientist, doctor and chemist Andrew Ure revealed that he worked hard on the corpse of Matthew Clydesdale, who hanged himself. Yur believed that he could restore life to victims who died from suffocation, or drowned. In a report of his experiments, he claimed that after stimulating various nerves with electricity, Clydesdale's corpse became highly revitalized. This spectacle literally knocked one of the doctor's assistants to the ground. As the doctor wrote: "During this period, several spectators were forced to leave the apartment in terror, and one gentleman fainted." Yur continued to publish his research and continued to be a respected man of science.
Victoria Ivashura