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Medieval hardships (lemmy.world)
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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 4 months ago

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

[-] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

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

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 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.

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