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Medieval hardships (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by nifty to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Hell, even half of their "treatments" ended up making the problem worse or killing you even quicker

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

One common treatment for chickenpox was to drill a hole in the skull. Shockingly this wasn't very helpful

[–] SandmanXC 9 points 5 months ago

No patient complaints were registered, so it couldn't have been that bad either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But drilling a hole in your head did solve some other problems like brain swelling, so without knowing better and having no alternatives, I could see why one would try

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It would have dealt with the swelling immediately but chances are the patient would have died from infection from the operation.