Replies to post #412366 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[brooklyn13]

TB? You didn't even read your own damn link. Finally, near the end of the piece:

"Of the measures introduced to combat pandemic influenza at the hospital, the use of improvised face masks—including their design and the frequency with which they were changed—is noteworthy."

The sunlight treatment apparently eased some symptoms of influenza, but didn't really cure anyone. And what if you lived in a northern state or one with rainy weather?

Some people smoke unfiltered cigarettes and live to be 100 years old. That's hardly an argument, though, that smoking cigarettes doesn't damage your health.

[wEaReLeGiOn]

[Treatment by bloodletting in the past and present]

[Article in Serbian]
Natasa Colovic, Danijela Lekovic, Mirjana Gotic
PMID: 27483574
Abstract

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27483574/

Introduction: Therapeutic bloodletting has been practiced at least 3000 years as one of the most frequent methods of treatment in general, whose value was not questioned until the 19th century, when it was gradually abandoned in Western medicine, while it is still practiced in Arabic and traditional Chinese medicine.

By the time of the 1918–1919 pandemic, it was common practice to put the sick outside in tents or in specially designed open wards. Among the first advocates of what was later to become known as the “open-air method” was the English physician John Coakley Lettsom (1744–1815

[blackhawks]

Thanks for using 17th and 18th century science to totally undermine your silly 'let's move 'em outside for some fresh air and sunshine' treatment.

'Minimum of medicines'?

No shit! Alcohol and opium were pretty much it for the drug armamentarium

https://www.britannica.com/science/history-of-medicine/Medicine-in-the-18th-century

2/3 of the '18 Pandemic occurred during the fall and winter of '18/'19, when moving hospitalized flu patients outside was not feasible. Neither is there any evidence that what may have helped tubercular patients has any relevance for either the flu or for Covid in a modern, much more crowded, mostly urban population.

The above is what thought looks like. Your shitty HS education just doesn't cut it.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/three-waves.htm