19 Everyday Health Practices from the Past That Would Raise an Eyebrow

We’ve covered mercury, lead, and bleach as erroneous health treatments. But radium is simply cataclysmic! Once believed (and we have the advertisement to prove it!) to have healing properties, unsuspecting participants would ingest or bathe in none other than radium, unaware of its radioactive properties that could irrevocably lead to cancer and eventual death.