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Men battling with erection problems have touted Viagra as a wonder drug.\u00a0 The popular diamond-shaped pill is quite a medical achievement when you consider some of the ways to gain stronger erections was handled in the past.<\/p>\nMen battling with erection problems have touted Viagra as a wonder drug.\u00a0 The popular diamond-shaped pill is quite a medical achievement when you consider some of the ways to gain stronger erections was handled in the past.<\/p>\n
The Irish Times put together a list of the most unorthodox treatments suggested for erection difficulties<\/a> and impotence through the years.<\/p>\n * Julius Althaus, a Victorian surgeon, recommended sticking electrodes into the penis and the lower back and then send electricity through them.\u00a0The hope was the \u201cblockages\u201d that caused erection issues would clear and alleviate the problem.\u00a0This wasn\u2019t a highly sought after treatment – not just because it\u2019s clearly uncomfortable but because the electrodes sometimes fused to the inside of the penis.\u00a0 (Can you imagine that side effect being listed on a televised erection problems ad?)<\/p>\n *Another crazy method?\u00a0 How about injecting the boys with a little extract removed a from guinea-pig\u2019s testicles?\u00a0 Charles-\u00c9douard Brown-S\u00e9quard claimed this cured his impotence in the late 1880s.<\/p>\n * We\u2019re not done with the animal ideas yet folks.\u00a0 Another doctor claimed transplanting goat or ram testicles into men would do the trick.\u00a0 This one came from a doctor in Kansas who shutdown his practice years later.<\/p>\n Hearing these crazy notions really makes the simplicity of a pill, which has been approved by health experts, a modern marvel.<\/p>\n Men battling with erection problems have touted Viagra as a wonder drug.\u00a0 The popular diamond-shaped pill is quite a medical achievement when you consider some of the ways to gain stronger erections was handled in the past. The Irish Times put together a list of the most unorthodox treatments suggested for erection difficulties and impotence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erectile-dysfunction"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/meds1.jpg\")
How Viagra was discovered<\/strong>
\nResearchers didn\u2019t set out to find a pill to help men have a more active sex life.\u00a0 They were testing the drug\u2019s effectiveness on heart problems and discovered an interesting side effect.\u00a0 That side effect was, of course, an erection.\u00a0 After that Pfizer launched a whole separate study into the sexual effects Viagra<\/a> could have.\u00a0 Years later the drug hit the market and help millions of men<\/a>.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s as commonly known as aspirin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"