[HN Gopher] The human x-ray scientists
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       The human x-ray scientists
        
       Author : Vigier
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2024-07-12 13:17 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | teslabox wrote:
       | This is an interesting blog. Medicine was very primitive into the
       | early 20th century - it took centuries for the old ineffective
       | techniques to die out. Planck's observation was paraphrased as
       | 'science advances one funeral at a time', but Medicine resisted
       | advancement for hundreds of years. Hustlers [0] were probably the
       | greatest obstacle to medical progress.
       | 
       | [0] I don't mean this as 'con artist', but people who think
       | they're more competent than they actually are. There's probably a
       | better term...
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       | Maybe it had to do with literacy - effective techniques weren't
       | propagated more quickly because they were passed down to
       | apprentices, rather than published widely. I enjoyed this post:
       | 
       |  _A caesarean section in 18th-century Ireland - Irish midwife
       | Mary Donally saved a woman 's life by performing a c-section in
       | 1738._ - https://thequackdoctor.substack.com/p/a-caesarean-
       | section-in...
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       | The baby was breach, and did not survive. The illiterate midwife
       | showed up 12 days after labor had begun, extracted the dead baby,
       | sewed the woman up with silk thread and tailor's needles, and
       | applied a salve made with egg whites. A literate surgeon visited
       | a few days after the operation, and wrote a report for _Medical
       | Essays and Observations_.
        
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