The element of rest is now generally accepted as an important feature in the therapeutics of all tuberculous infections. A striking example of this is found in the promptness with which an acute tuberculous infection of the hip or knee joint is quieted by rest from the application of a plaster cast. The immobilization or splinting of a tuberculous lung…
Wtf. It’s like reading about all those radium based therapies for whatever ails you.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/653274#:~:text=Artificial pneumothorax therapy consists in the repeated injections,indefinite period the collapse of a diseased lung.
Back in the day, they treated lung problems by sucking the air out of one lung. It gave the lung a ‘breather.’
Wtf. It’s like reading about all those radium based therapies for whatever ails you.
You picked a ‘cure’ that wasn’t tested.
It may seem crazy, but back in the day, artificial pneumothorax was the best thing they had.
I’m sure in the future people will look back at our open surgeries as medieval torture.