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40 years people were smart enough not to drink or bathe in mercurochrome or iodine. Sad state on modern intelligence! ---John
In the UK pregnant women were prescribed Guiness or stout for iron. A friend of ours who has worked in hospitals, inc mental hospitals, told me recently that they used to do the same in mental wards on the full moon to calm the patients!
Why can't I get booze on prescription, surley I must have something that would benefit from a dose?
I've been working in Psychiatric Units and Long Term Care for about 20+ years ... The PC crowd pretty much run health care these days, and there are a lot of busybody morons running around trying to fix things that don't need fixing ...
We still have hucksters like that today. They run health-food and nutritional-supplement stores.
I don't mean to condemn all such things by any means -- if a product works, it works. My issue is more with the marketing -- especially the exaggerated claims you find on the internet and in word-of-mouth for products that have never actually been scientifically proven to do what they're supposed to do -- and might not even actually be what it says on the label. Some random guy online or on the street says "hey try this, it's great, don't believe all the negative stuff," and before you know it Grandpa has turned blue.
This type of hype is what Kallett and Schlink fought hard against -- unproven, unprovable claims made to turn a fast buck. If they were alive today, I think they'd be horrified to see "how far we've come."
(I'm no fan of the pharmaceutical racket, either, but that's another rant...)
How far back in the memory do we have to go to qualify for "Medical Practitioners of Old"?--John