Tugas kita bukanlah untuk berhasil. Tugas Kita adalah untuk mencoba, karena disaat mencoba disitulah kita menemukan serta belajar membangun kesempatan untuk berhasil..!!
King Charles II did though - he used a potion made from human skulls to treat epilepsy. And according to new book Mummies, Cannibals And Vampires by Richard Sugg, other royals loved their cadaver cures too.
This might explain why Elizabeth I's surgeon needed regular supplies of fat, flesh and brains.
Thank goodness modern medicine has emerged from the Dark Ages. Or has it? In fact, there are plenty of medieval treatments still going strong today, such as maggot therapy.
Maggots munch dead, infected tissue, leaving the healthy stuff alone. So they're excellent at cleaning wounds like pressure sores or ulcers.
Apparently, after a typical treatment, each maggot is a massive ten times bigger - and the wound's probably ten times healthier.
The main problem is, understandably, persuading patients to lurve those larvae.
Trepanning. No, these days we don't bore holes in your skull to cure fits, migraine or mental illness - and if we do, you should report us to the GMC.
But we do apply drill to skull if you've had a bad head injury and a blood clot's compressing your brain, because relieving the pressure could save your life.
Leeches. Blimey - this one goes back 2,500 years. Ancient Greek and Indian civilisations used leech-based blood-letting to clear the body of "toxins".
It doesn't work so thankfully it has fallen out of fashion. But plastic surgeons have rediscovered the humble leech. They're excellent at sucking out bruising and swelling after an operation.
Ventouse. Mid childbirth? Baby stuck? If only the obstetrician had a big vacuum gizmo he could suck the baby out with. Well, he does.
It's called a ventouse, or vacuum extractor. A suction cup is attached to the baby's head and, a few tugs later, hey presto, a newborn baby with a bruised scalp.
It sounds - and looks - primitive. But it does work.
It's used to treat depression. It's not the first line of attack, of course. But in severe cases, when all else has failed, it can be a life-saver.
Blood-letting. True, we've moved on a bit from the idea of bleeding you to let out "bad humours". But blood-letting - or, to use its proper name, venesection - remains a genuine treatment for some rare blood disorders, like polycythaemia.
Worm therapy. Strange, but true. Researchers are deliberately infecting patients with gut worms to see if it might help some bowel diseases.
Why? Because, somehow, these worms suppress your immune system - otherwise they'd be ejected - and that, in turn, can ease an inflamed bowel.
Ovarian drilling. Sounds nasty but it's a genuine treatment for women with polycystic ovarian syndrome - that's multiple cysts on the ovaries causing a hormone imbalance.
If medication hasn't helped, "drilling" - making multiple holes in each ovary, often with a laser - may do the trick.
Flatus tube. The idea of having a wide-bore tube shoved right up your tail end doesn't sound that appealing. You'd feel differently if you had a twisted bowel though.
The tube relieves the pressure by releasing all that trapped gas.
So relax if your doc suggests something that sounds more like a torture than a treatment.
Though you might just check he didn't used to look after Elizabeth I.
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