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standard care

Medicine as practised, by people who were certain. Each entry is a treatment that was standard, and the records that say how it went.

4 posts

Start at No. 1

  1. The First Doctor to Count Kept Bleeding People Anyway

    In 1828 Pierre Louis found that pneumonia patients bled early died more often and recovered faster. He concluded the practice had narrow limits.

  2. For a Quieter, Happier Home

    An advertisement we wrote, for a procedure that needed no advertising. Every claim in it is documented underneath.

  3. Obituary: The Four Humors, Aged Roughly 2,300

    Survived by four personality types, one idiom, and the entire wellness aisle.

  4. Trepanation. Three Stars. Verified Procedure.

    Survival went from about 40 percent to over 70 across roughly five thousand years of practice. They were getting better at it. That is the unsettling part.