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Originally Posted by mrsD
Ginnie, we are talking about history
Back in the early 1900's.
In my edition of this book, page 60
Has a lot of detail, and surprising to
Me many subsequent pages. I am
Still in chapter 4 which is the pernicious
Anemia history, and Mayo was removing
Spleens for that too. I am reading another book
Called The Forest and trading back and forth.
We have no TV here. So I tend to read a lot.
The bibliography details many medical
Papers at that time of the continuing
Arguments between radical surgeries (at
Mayo) and other doctors who believed
These surgeries were fatal and unnecessary .
One needs to really read in context because the rise in
Abdominal surgeries was the real problem at that time
And lead to unnecessary suffering and death.
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There was a psychiatrist at a mental hospital in North Jersey that believed mental illness was caused by infection. This was the early twentieth century. He began by removing teeth, then proceeded to more involved abdominal surgeries. He had a 30% death rate, and of course he did not have a single cure, but was allowed to continue for 30 years. It was truly a barbaric time.