What medical practices should they bring back?

[Pirate]

What medical practices should they bring back?

[Canalien]

ALL of the above.
They still use leeches and maggots.

[Aardvark]

They should determine a genetic way of telling if a child is gonna be a dick from birth, then leave him on a mountain to die.

Yes, I know my radical solution will deplete the population severely, due to a sudden sharp decline in birth rates and diseases borne from the mountain of baby carcasses wiping out the remainder of the population, but damnit people, times are desperate, dicks are plentiful and I say we should stop them at the source or, failing that, leave them to die on mountains as babies

[lostreality]

i think the NHS still uses saws.

[dwarfthrower]

Trepanning - I need that like a hole in the head.

[lostreality]

Trepanning - I need that like a hole in the head.

cheapest of cheap jokes :hippy:

[druckfugged]

Let the demons out! Possibly as effective as modern psychological practices at any rate, and a goodly sight more effective as a deterrent in the first place.Might also streamline the judicial system as well, with what would concievably be a huge reduction in pleas of temporary insanity.

[gwalmachi]

Yay for leeches

[StudMuffin]

Trapanning or Trephening is still done; i remember and article in the news, in the last couple of years when someone had it done.

This guy (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/2982391.stm) was slightly less successful.

[Benwah]

bloodletting is still common practise

[That Bloke]

Trepanning is only used(by proper medics) to relieve fluid pressure now,........However some people seem to think trepanning(& practice it with such crude ways as a power drill with a 1" hole saw attachment) is a magic cure for everything & even people who have nothing wrong with them should be trepanned for good measure, even worse is that these people believe that the skin should not be allowed to grow over the hole so that the brain may have a constant airflow........that can't be good for something that's 80% water.

[fastfood]

Stoning!

I am all for the legalisation of marijuana for medicinal purposes!*


*and recreational, but that would spoil this joke.

[That Bloke]

cheapest of cheap jokes :hippy:

Actually it's the very origin of said joke.

[frednurk]

Add maggots to the poll. Actually they can't really bring them back because they are still used.

[Cassa]

I think blistering is the only one of those that's not still done (unless purging means something other than what I think it means).

[and3w]

Sagit wins the prize...w00t...winnar & Gold Star awardee

[Canalien]

They still use a form of treppanning under zero anaesthesia to treat parkinsons. particularly effective apparently, if you don't mind having a hold drilled into your forehead.

[beowulf437]

I don't know about the treatments listed in the poll, but how about bringing back the Urethrotome in the treatment of Syphilis.

http://hml.org/mmhc/museum/ar0056.html

[lectrotext]

I don't know about the treatments listed in the poll, but how about bringing back the Urethrotome in the treatment of Syphilis.

http://hml.org/mmhc/museum/ar0056.html

I am not clicking that link! It has the word urethro in it, so it's got to be painful!

[That Bloke]

They still use a form of treppanning under zero anaesthesia to treat parkinsons. particularly effective apparently, if you don't mind having a hold drilled into your forehead.

Ah, I know that one, The trappanning itself is not the treatment, it's only a small hole through which wires from a modified pacemaker are passed, the pulses from the pacemaker cancel out the false nerve signals.

As for the zero anaesthesia, well that's because all brain/neuro surgery requires the full consciousness & responsiveness of the patient.

[gooey]

I don't know about the treatments listed in the poll, but how about bringing back the Urethrotome in the treatment of Syphilis.

http://hml.org/mmhc/museum/ar0056.html

ouch!

in that context - that thing looks very painful

[-=[BB]=-]

They should determine a genetic way of telling if a child is gonna be a dick from birth, then leave him on a mountain to die.

Yes, I know my radical solution will deplete the population severely, due to a sudden sharp decline in birth rates and diseases borne from the mountain of baby carcasses wiping out the remainder of the population, but damnit people, times are desperate, dicks are plentiful and I say we should stop them at the source or, failing that, leave them to die on mountains as babies

You cant do that, Canberra would become a ghost town!

[legion]

lobotomies for all dickheads like they used to do them in the early days a big spike that gets jammed above both eye sockets directly in the frontal lobes, i think they used to describe it as a method to cure insanity in 'troubled people' ;)

[Marshall77]

I thought that the brain didnt have pain reseptors in it. the skin does and the drilling of the skull would be noisy. bugger it its all progress

drill them all i say (alright. in that way as well)

[Evil Dan]

There aren't enough castrations these days.


Everyone loves a Eunuch but a Eunuch can't love anyone...... not in a physical way anyway.

[Afta Image]

Wat about introducing a little bit of Witchcraft into the medical professions..... Cause sometimes they have better ideas than fucken doctors.....

[Budman42]

Bloodletting should be used to get rid of people with an IQ over 50.....Sane people scare me.

[Aardvark]

The higher the IQ, the less grip on reality people have. Low IQ people barely have a grip on their bodily functions

[Kez]

Sodomisation

Oh wait, that's not a medical practise...

[beachcomber]

personally, I was always keen on labotomy

[T-WRX]

Forced Orgasims for "Hystaric Women"

[ms edeity]

forcable confinement to psychiatric hospitals for sane people...because everyone needs a reason to go to the bell jar

[RedMaN]

Go the leeches!! May they move forwards and suck the blood from your loins :D

[beachcomber]

I've always dreamed af being a castroni tenor

[Directed]

Leaches are slimy, gross and suck your blood. Everything I want in a medical procedure is already there!

[ewe2]

I reckon little johnny could do with a window on his brain....i could get really enthusiastic about this :)

[jacko]

In Qld we still use all those practises , but mainly at the blunderbugga hospital

[That Bloke]

Bloodletting should be used to get rid of people with an IQ over 50.....Sane people scare me.
Other way round.

The chances of insanity drastically increase with greater intelligence, stupidity is nature's safegaurd against insanity.

[Steely]

Gotta be the leeches,they have thousands of uses,,i can think of at least 3 other useful things they can do just sitting here ;)

[etherealchild]

The chances of insanity drastically increase with greater intelligence, stupidity is nature's safegaurd against insanity.

Then explain to me Michael Jackson. hmmmm?

[That Bloke]

Then explain to me Michael Jackson. hmmmm?

Don't confuse idiocy with insanity.

[Arcane1]

Other way round.

The chances of insanity drastically increase with greater intelligence, stupidity is nature's safegaurd against insanity.
Yeah, but unfortunately it is no gurantee against procreation.

We need to have an IQ based sterilization program. Call it mandated Darwinism. As an added bonus, if they score too low on the test, they get their right to consume oxygen revoked.

[That Bloke]

They should reintroduce doing stupid dances to avoid poisoning from spider bites.

The "Tarentella" was a dance performed by people who were bitten by tarantulas(named after the dance), believed to ward off the spider's evil magic, the irony in it is that true tarantulas aren't really outstandingly poisonous to humans & are about as magic as a birthday clown

[munganah]

a good old purge never hurt anyone

[antiwar]

castration for paedophiles and rapists ,,,, with a blunt rusty hacksaw ,performed by stevie wonder ...
say bye bye to paedophillia and rapists

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well i can dream cant i

[AzureDreams]

Forced Orgasims for "Hystaric Women"

Yeah I wouldn't mind my DR. useing the old vibrator on me now and then..

[Farnk]

I recently saw maggots in action.
Fascinating, but it made my guts hurl every time.

One of my dogs had a fairly large soft tissue sarcoma removed from his elbow. The vet took a skin graft from his chest area and put it on his elbow.

I took time off to look after him, bathing the wounds and cleaning the drain tube that the vet had inserted 3 or 4 times a day.

After a week or so of being kept inside, part of the skin graft died and started to putrefy. The maggots appeared and started to eat the dead tissue. The interesting thing is that they leave the healthy tissue completely alone.

So after a few days, the wound was clean and the maggots gone. My sister (she's a flight nurse with the flying doctor in WA) told me that sterile maggots and leeches are bred specifrically for this sort of thing in people.