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Medicine's been a work in progress for centuries, doctors have done and believed all kinds of stuff we can call crazy today to figure out what works. Your sore

Medicine's been a work in progress for centuries, doctors have done and believed all kinds of stuff we can call crazy today to figure out what works. Your sore knee analogy... probably really did end in wholesale unnecessary amputation and death until we shot and hacked up enough people during wars to learn more accurate ways to treat a sore leg. We learned a lot from crude, violent and deadly experiments by Nazi doctors doing stuff that would be intuitively recognized as illegal in most countries today. Programming is also in a state of evolution. Maybe one day we'll look back at SPAs and everyone will agree they were as crap as java apps in browsers. We used to think asbestos, lead, oil, cigarettes, opium etc were great solutions too.

hsod 10y ago
> Your sore knee analogy... probably really did end in wholesale unnecessary amputation and death Really? It doesn't seem likely to me that even a primitive medical person would amputate a leg because someone's knee hurts
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- benologist 10y ago
  We know amputations date back to stone age times - https://saesferd.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/prehistoric-amputee/ https://saesferd.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/prehistoric-ampute... http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern-treatments/amputation.htm http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern-treatments/a.... Lots of medical/all history will surprise you right into the 20th century and beyond - http://www.cracked.com/article_15669_the-10-most-insane-medical-practices-in-history.html http://www.cracked.com/article_15669_the-10-most-insane-medi... #10 morphine cough syrup for kids #9 mercury for ... everything #8 heroin for coughs #7 electric shocks to cure erectile dysfunction #6 lobotomies for mental illnesses #5 urine therapy ... lives on #4 bloodletting for ... everything #3 tapeworms for weight loss #2 holes in skulls for headaches #1 vaginal massages for female hysteria

hsod 10y ago

> Your sore knee analogy... probably really did end in wholesale unnecessary amputation and death Really? It doesn't seem likely to me that even a primitive medical person would amputate a leg because someone's knee hurts

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benologist 10y ago
We know amputations date back to stone age times - https://saesferd.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/prehistoric-amputee/ https://saesferd.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/prehistoric-ampute... http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern-treatments/amputation.htm http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/modern-treatments/a.... Lots of medical/all history will surprise you right into the 20th century and beyond - http://www.cracked.com/article_15669_the-10-most-insane-medical-practices-in-history.html http://www.cracked.com/article_15669_the-10-most-insane-medi... #10 morphine cough syrup for kids #9 mercury for ... everything #8 heroin for coughs #7 electric shocks to cure erectile dysfunction #6 lobotomies for mental illnesses #5 urine therapy ... lives on #4 bloodletting for ... everything #3 tapeworms for weight loss #2 holes in skulls for headaches #1 vaginal massages for female hysteria