What are some weird or dangerous things you heard people did in the past to look attractive? I’ve read an article saying that people in the 40s would

There was a doctor who would give a capsule to patients that wanted to lose weight. He’d tell them when they reached their goal to come back and he would give them another capsule. The first capsule was a tapeworm head, the second was medicine to kill the tapeworm. I believe the people didn’t know what they were being given.