Ingesting tapeworms
There have been many rumors about people swallowing tapeworms over the years in a bid to lose weight. It was once all the rage to have a small waist. Although many people opted for corsets to squeeze their bodies into unnatural shapes, it’s believed that some wanted to help things along. If the rumors are true, then people would swallow a pill that contained a tapeworm that would later grow within their body.
Once they lost all the weight they needed, all they had to do was take another tablet that helped the remove the tapeworm. If this is true, then people were at risk of epilepsy and dementia. That is if the worm didn’t grow so large that it caused them to choke.
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