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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostKnock it off. The US constitution was signed in 1787. The world's first vaccination occurred in England in 1796. Medicine was a joke until the mid to late nineteenth century - it probably did as much harm as it did good.
https://www.britannica.com/science/h...e-18th-century
Vaccines didn't just happen from one day to the next. Medicine was launched.When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Originally posted by SeattleUte View PostThis is beside the point. But it wasn't a total joke. Stop being such a smarty pants."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View PostTheodoric of York, Medieval Barber! They should have included a dental plan as well; poor George.
Bloodletting was also popular in the young United States of America, where Benjamin Rush (a signatory of the Declaration of Independence) saw the state of the arteries as the key to disease, recommending levels of bloodletting that were high even for the time. George Washington asked to be bled heavily after he developed a throat infection from weather exposure. Within a ten-hour period, a total of 124–126 ounces (3.75 liters) of blood was withdrawn prior to his death from a throat infection in 1799"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostSpeaking of George, he was a fan of bloodletting. Might actually be what killed him - or at least contributed to his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodl...n%20in%201799."Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf
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Originally posted by Moliere View PostThat reminds me of the scene in the John Adams miniseries where he’s sick in the Netherlands and the doctor is bloodletting him. Yuck!"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostIt is crazy how common it was. On top of all of the erroneous theories on what it was supposed to accomplish, I guess it gave some kind of temporary feeling of euphoria, which helped convince people it was beneficial.Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
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GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostIt is crazy how common it was. On top of all of the erroneous theories on what it was supposed to accomplish, I guess it gave some kind of temporary feeling of euphoria, which helped convince people it was beneficial.
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Originally posted by BigFatMeanie View PostPerhaps because it was the scientific consensus of the time?"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostNope. The medical community didn’t even start using the scientific method until the late 1800s. Prior to that it was mainly the observational method and folklore. It was precisely the scientific method that debunked bloodletting.Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostNope. The medical community didn’t even start using the scientific method until the late 1800s. Prior to that it was mainly the observational method and folklore. It was precisely the scientific method that debunked bloodletting.When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
--Jonathan Swift
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Originally posted by falafel View PostI don't think he meant scientific method. Just general agreement among practitioners that it worked.
So, like, a group of doctors who believe what they are doing helps cure their patients because that is what they have personally observed in their limited, anecdotal experience? Glad we have the scientific method now to prevent a group like that from speaking up and misleading people.Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss
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Medicine employed the scientific method in the eighteenth century, long before the"late 1800s."
https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/-/media/fil...d-medicine.pdfWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
--Jonathan Swift
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