This is the kind of medicine people need 🙏
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Explanation: Medieval Western European ("Frankish") medicine was somewhat... lacking. Please enjoy this anecdote from an Arab noble during the Crusades as way of example:
For fairness's sake, the same author relates another story of Frankish medicine of the period, much more positive (though less relevant to the meme)
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I have, however, witnessed a case of their medicine which was quite different from that.
The king of the Franks bad for treasurer a knight named Bernard, who (may Allah's curse be upon him!) was one of the most accursed and wicked among the Franks. A horse kicked him in the leg, which was subsequently infected and which opened in fourteen different places. Every time one of these cuts would close in one place, another would open in ancther place. All this happened while I was praying for his perdition. Then came to him a Frankish physician and removed from the leg all the ointments which were on it and began to wasb it with very strong vinegar. By this treatment all the cuts were healed and the man became well again. He was up again like a devil. Another case illustrating their curious medicine is the following: In Shayzar we had an artisan named abu-al-Fath, who had a boy whose neck was afflicted with scrofula. Every time a part of it would close, another part would open. This man happened to go to Antioch on business of his, accompanied by his son. A Frank noticed the boy and asked his father about him. Abu-al-Fath replied, "This is my son." The Frank said to him, 'Wilt thou swear by thy religion that if I prescribe to you a medicine which will cure thy boy, thou wilt charge nobody fees for prescribing it thyself? In that case, I shall prescribe to you a medicine which will cure the boy." The man took the oath and the Frank said:
Take uncrushed leaves of glasswort, burn them, then soak the ashes in olive oil and sharp vinegar. Treat the scrofula with them until the spot on which it is growing is eaten up. Then take burnt lead, soak it in ghee butter and treat him with it. That will cure him.
The father treated the boy accordingly, and the boy was cured. The sores closed and the boy returned to his normal condition of health.
I have myself treated with this medicine many who were afflicted with such disease, and the treatment was successful in removing the cause of the complaint.
I know! .... let's put some leeches on him! ... or drill a hole through his skull!
Why?
I heard Jacob did it two towns over one time
Did it work?
.... Y-y-yes?
"I didn't hear any complaints from the patient afterwards!"
Patient? .... what's that?
You know what's medieval? IUD insertions without pain management.
It's a fucking travesty how women are still being dismissed and have their pain downplayed in modern medicine. You can walk into an ER with appendicitis and doctors will ask you at least 5 times over if you're sure it's not just your period, as if endometriosis and ruptured ovaries are not a real concern.
If you wonder why women so often turn to alternate medicine, it's because they've been systemically failed by a medical system that is decades behind on conditions that primarily affect women. Not just in research, but also in correcting new doctors on outdated notions and diagnostic criteria. So many conditions have been boiled down to 'Does this impact your ability to have children? If not, then it is not worth our time or money to address it.'
Hell, we're still making women give birth on their backs so the doctor's neck won't have an ouchie wouchie. Women still use midwives not because they like to romanticize tradition, it's because midwives are often the only person in the room who will advocate for her needs in a time when everyone else fails to treat her like a reliable witness to her own body.
Coming soon to a US hospital near you.
Third panel could replace mint with bleach or hydroxychloroquine and still be accurate.
If the patient has malaria the latter treatment would work. :)