philosophy by https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz How medicine worked. en-us 2013-05-13 22:32:29 UTC 2025-12-11 12:31:04 UTC hello@padlet.com PLEASE NOTE - These medicinal recipes are not intended for actual use! At best they'll make you go "yech". At worst, they'll kill you. We present them only to demonstrate what our ancestors went through. You have been warned. elanabarth https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879060 from civil war interactive

]]> 2013-05-13 22:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879060 CHILBLAINS - Soak [the affected body part] in a pail of water in which turnips have been boiled. Mash the turnips, leave them in the water, and set the feet into them. A poultice of mashed turnips is also useful. The writer has seen bad cases of chilblains entirely removed, by merely soaking the feet several times.(Chilblains are not the same affliction as frostbite, modern doctors will tell you. They are less likely to recommend mashed turnips as a solution, though. elanabarth https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879080 from civil war interactive

]]> 2013-05-13 22:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879080 FOR FROSTBITTEN HANDS AND FEET -Wash the parts often in sugar of lead. If badly frosted, wet linen cloths, and keep them on the frozen parts.(You knew, of course, that sugar of lead is not really a good cure for frostbite, or anything else for that matter, right? Stay warm.) elanabarth https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879102 from civil war interactive

]]> 2013-05-13 22:44:06 UTC https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879102 CUTS - Press a cut together, and bind it firmly without cording; if it bleeds, use ashes, salt, or what is better, spiders' webs. elanabarth https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879133 from civil war interactive

]]> 2013-05-13 22:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879133 LOCKJAW (TETANUS) (From Mrs. Child) - A rind of pork bound upon a wound occasioned by a needle, pin or nail prevents the lock-jaw. It should be always applied. Spirits of turpentine is good to prevent the lock-jaw. Strong soft-soap, mixed with pulverized chalk, about as thick as batter, put, in a thin cloth or bag, upon the wound, is said to be a preventative to this dangerous disorder. The chalk should be kept moist till the wound begins to discharge itself, when the patient will find relief.This is much the same treatment that is often recommended for snakebite, so the theory that pork had some attractive effect for bad things carried inward by puncture wounds of the skin seems to be prevalent. Turpentine, which was readily available almost everywhere since it was made by distillation from pine trees, would produce an intense stinging sensation which was seen as helpful. It might even have had some sort of disinfectant effect, but we don't know and have no great desire to find out. elanabarth https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879158 from civil war interactive

]]> 2013-05-13 22:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879158 In other words there medicine stinks! elanabarth https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879176 The States were far behind Europe in the medical field

and not going to catch up any time sone.

their methods were brutal and there tools dirty.

If you were sick....you were better off dead.

]]> 2013-05-13 22:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879176 Philosophy, elanabarth https://padlet.com/elanabarth/xe4wmijmpz/wish/9879249

Perhaps the question should be how anybody survived the 19th century,

not why so many died of things easily cured today.

And that's even without the added burden of war and suchlike disasters.

From civil war interactive.
(Yah....I don't know about you guys but I would not be letting thoose docters
anywhere,and I mean anywhere,near me!)
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