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Smoke less or smoke more - Philip Morris - 1942 (i.ibb.co)

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

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/653274#:~:text=Artificial%20pneumothorax%20therapy%20consists%20in%20the%20repeated%20injections,indefinite%20period%20the%20collapse%20of%20a%20diseased%20lung.

Back in the day, they treated lung problems by sucking the air out of one lung. It gave the lung a 'breather.'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

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.

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

I'm sure in the future people will look back at our open surgeries as medieval torture.