The Cure for Malaria

An ancient cure for malaria was to slice open your abdomen, pull your intestines out and wash them in salt water. "I kind of imagine running around as a soldier or whatever back then and just being totally paranoid about wounds to the stomach," he says. Your head, your chest or your stomach is really the death zone; if you get them anywhere else, as long as it doesn't hit an artery, you're probably going to survive with a flesh wound.

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