• Baku@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Hell, even half of their “treatments” ended up making the problem worse or killing you even quicker

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      One common treatment for chickenpox was to drill a hole in the skull. Shockingly this wasn’t very helpful

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        But drilling a hole in your head did solve some other problems like brain swelling, so without knowing better and having no alternatives, I could see why one would try

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          It would have dealt with the swelling immediately but chances are the patient would have died from infection from the operation.