The COVID-19 pandemic caused many anxious patients to delay in-person medical treatment and turn to the internet for potential solutions, but folk remedies and snake oil have existed long before the internet.
“I see a lot of people who have done crazy things with stuff that they put in their eyes that they think is helping it,” Thomas L. Steinemann, MD, spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and professor of ophthalmology at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, told Healio/OSN.
“I love history, and the history of medicine is fascinating,” Steinemann