How the hell did they discover drinking wine with old nails was good for anemia?
This reminds me of how doctors and scientists were looking over old medical methods from yore, and one particularly gross medicine (it was something like poop mixed with particular herbs and dirt) was very effective against a nearly incurable disease.
The surprising wisdom of the past aside, how the hell did they figure out that the gross concoction would cure anything!? Did everyone who was sick with a disease all have to eat/drink such a thing and they took notes to see if it cured any of them? Did some sick person just
happen to eat the poop mixture and notice it healed him? Crazy.
It's kind of like wondering who was the first mad man to eat milk or eggs - you saw it was an excretion of the animal, but decided to go for it anyway, and we salute you for that!
