The element of rest is now generally accepted as an important feature in the therapeutics of all tuberculous infections. A striking example of this is found in the promptness with which an acute tuberculous infection of the hip or knee joint is quieted by rest from the application of a plaster cast. The immobilization or splinting of a tuberculous lung…
Wtf. It’s like reading about all those radium based therapies for whatever ails you.
This was the same time we were using arsenic and mercury to treat syphilis instead of antibiotics…
People forget how fast shit has moved. It was only 80 some years ago and that’s become normalized as not that long ago instead of damn near a century.
Nobody knew what the fuck was going on back medically back then.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/653274#:~:text=Artificial pneumothorax therapy consists in the repeated injections,indefinite period the collapse of a diseased lung.
Back in the day, they treated lung problems by sucking the air out of one lung. It gave the lung a ‘breather.’
Wtf. It’s like reading about all those radium based therapies for whatever ails you.
You picked a ‘cure’ that wasn’t tested.
It may seem crazy, but back in the day, artificial pneumothorax was the best thing they had.
I’m sure in the future people will look back at our open surgeries as medieval torture.