More Modern Medicine
Journal 2005 01 26
More Modern Medicine
It is a comparatively “worm” day. Twelve and twenty above zero at dawn and dusk respectively. Assiniboine Indians are visiting the neighboring Hidatsa’s and include the American expeditionaries in their rounds. It is still cold, icy and snowy on the prairie and people continue to visit. The men of the Corp are pretty well bunkered in for the winter except for hunting and visiting the nearby Indian villages. What drives the emissaries to brave the conditions are the same things that drive us today. Commerce, diplomacy and curiosity. Warfare could be included in the types of activities that take us out in conditions that would normally keep us in. But no warfare took place this winter.
Again, outdated medical practices are employed in the treatment of one of the men having chest pains. Diagnosed as pleurisy, he is bled and given other forms of treatment. All are not helpful. The young soldier will recover in spite of the treatments that we now know only hindered his healing. Today we know better. Again I wonder, what will be discovered two hundred years from now about our current medical practices? First to always come to my mind is our use of chemotherapy. We literally chemically “burn” patients internally with chemicals bringing them near to death without killing them hoping to kill cancer cells. I believe this will be seen in history as a corollary treatment to the bleeding of our ancestors.
A work party of soldiers continues to attempt to cut the boats out of the ice. Progress is frustratingly slow and unproductive. (And the men would have to be cold and wet!)
More Modern Medicine
It is a comparatively “worm” day. Twelve and twenty above zero at dawn and dusk respectively. Assiniboine Indians are visiting the neighboring Hidatsa’s and include the American expeditionaries in their rounds. It is still cold, icy and snowy on the prairie and people continue to visit. The men of the Corp are pretty well bunkered in for the winter except for hunting and visiting the nearby Indian villages. What drives the emissaries to brave the conditions are the same things that drive us today. Commerce, diplomacy and curiosity. Warfare could be included in the types of activities that take us out in conditions that would normally keep us in. But no warfare took place this winter.
Again, outdated medical practices are employed in the treatment of one of the men having chest pains. Diagnosed as pleurisy, he is bled and given other forms of treatment. All are not helpful. The young soldier will recover in spite of the treatments that we now know only hindered his healing. Today we know better. Again I wonder, what will be discovered two hundred years from now about our current medical practices? First to always come to my mind is our use of chemotherapy. We literally chemically “burn” patients internally with chemicals bringing them near to death without killing them hoping to kill cancer cells. I believe this will be seen in history as a corollary treatment to the bleeding of our ancestors.
A work party of soldiers continues to attempt to cut the boats out of the ice. Progress is frustratingly slow and unproductive. (And the men would have to be cold and wet!)
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