People Twitter

5274 readers

816 users here now

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

Mark NSFW content.
No doxxing people.
Must be a tweet or similar
No bullying or international politcs
Be excellent to each other.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

703

Medieval hardships (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

63 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

No patient complaints were registered, so it couldn't have been that bad either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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