The horrifically bleak medical philosophy of the 1700s
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[release][h2]The horrifically bleak medical philosophy of the 1700s[/h2]
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This passage (circa 1799) from London's Religious Tract Society gives a bracingly cheery view on medical afflictions. The document is called [i]Pithy Papers on Singular Subjects[/i]. It says:
[quote]One man thinks that the sea separates distant countries from each other, but there are seafaring men who say that the ocean joins them. Now, this latter opinion, looking on the waters as a pathway for ships, is quite as correct, and a great deal more agreeable, than the former. Let us learn a lesson from the seafaring man, then, and regard the bright side of even our afflictions. Instead of considering sicknesses and diseases to be only so many painful visitations, let us try to regard them, also, as so many different roads to the golden gates of heaven.[/quote][/release]
Thank goodness we're way past this religious nonsense in medicine...
[i]Or are we?[/i]
How is this news? Many medical theories in the 1700s were led by religious followings.
Doing what they can with what they've got. You're right though, that guy is whack.
If this is news, so is the fact that I spoke gibberish when I was a child.
Doctor: "Sir, there's no easy way to say this so... your son has uh, been diagnosed with leukemia..."
Father: "Oh that's ok! That means he's closer to the Lord :D"
Doctor: "What?"
Father: "Hallellujah!! :D"
Doctor: [i]*facepalm*[/i]
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;32246118]Doctor: "Sir, there's no easy way to say this so... your son has uh, been diagnosed with leukemia..."
Father: "Oh that's ok! That means he's closer to the Lord :D"
Doctor: "What?"
Father: "Hallellujah!! :D"
Doctor: [i]*facepalm*[/i][/QUOTE]
If this is your attempt at trying to be witty, and funny. You're terribly failing at it.
[QUOTE=Laferio;32246058]How is this news?[/QUOTE]
It gives us something else to talk about.
What I find more fucked up is that Lobotomies were being fairly regularly practised as a medical science to treat mental disorders well into the 20th Century
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;32246144]It gives us something else to talk about.[/QUOTE]
So you're whole objective is trying to get some kind of debate started, (aka shitstorm) and somehow convince yourself this is somehow news? Even so this isn't even news?
[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;32246158]What I find more fucked up is that Lobotomies were being fairly regularly practised as a medical science to treat mental disorders well into the 20th Century[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that too.
Many doctors have a long storied background of not knowing what the hell they're doing...
Sounds like a nice way to deal with having to deal with death every day.
You're about 212 years late
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