Re: WOT: Guilt
- From: jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll)
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:11:08 +0000 (UTC)
In article <km80g29i6r992vshh07is1mlcrkmbu1mi8@xxxxxxx>,
Mike Burke <mburke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:02:59 +0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (JamesDidn't Orwell get in on the early treatment of TB with sulpha?
Nicoll) wrote:
In article <44ffcb26$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pogonip <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Medical science was not very advanced - my father was a doctor who made
house calls, not many people came into the office. Everything he needed
(and had) went into his black bag. There was a lot of mumbo-jumbo --
the paternal doctor figure who gave placebos and was grateful when they
worked. Tuberculosis was treated with sun bathing.
Heinlein had TB and used the treatment, which involved collapsing
a lung, as the basis of a story. The treatment wasn't risk free and the
doc in the story has a bad day, killing two patients in a row, leading to
some reluctance to be number three....
My father had TB and spent 6 months virtually immobile in a Veterans'
hospital and several years thereafter recovering. He was fortunate
that sulpha drugs had arrived on the scene.
ISTR the treatment had very unpleasant side-effects on him and he ended
up discontinuing the treatment.
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