1. Fecal transplantation

Fecal bacteriotherapy" was first described in 1958 by a team in Colorado, who successfully treated four patients suffering from pseudomembranous enterocolitis with an enema based on an aqueous suspension of stools from healthy subjects . However, the anteriority of this technique goes back to a Chinese scholar, Ge Hong, who recommended swallowing this type of mixture for very severe diarrhoea and food poisoning in an old Chinese grimoire dating from the fourth century