Many years ago, I lived in a trailer for a few months. My health went to hell and the experience was nightmarish.
While living there, I swore to myself I would never live in a trailer again and stated "I would rather live in a tent." Which I did, in actual fact, do for some years at a later date.
I got healthier while sleeping in a tent and desperately poor.
Doctors used to take their little black bag and do house calls. This allowed them to know a lot of things about your life without asking and to factor that into their diagnosis and treatment.
I think medicine is worse off for no longer doing that and I think Sick Building Syndrome is much more prevalent than people realize.
My Dad was a doctor, so technically we got a house call everyday. But the reality was that we never saw a doctor at all. If we needed a physical for school sports my dad would just look at us and say "Eh, you look healthy" and sign it. I was in my early 30s before I got a real checkup from a doctor for the first time since I was born.
When I was kid in Germany the doctor would do housecalls when I had fever. These days I can imagine this done only for very old people, either in Germany or the US.
Modern medicine in general is very good at treating symptoms but unfortunately focuses way too much on symptoms and not enough on living conditions, be it buildings, nutrition or other factors. A lot of buildings in the US have terrible air quality and bad drinking water quality. Add to that the unhealthy lifestyles people are living it's no wonder they get sick.
Unfortunately it seems kind of taboo to point this out to people. I know people who are 100 pound or more overweight and are getting back surgeries and knee and ankle replacements. The rational thing to do would be to tell them to lose weight first to reduce the strain on the joints. Or if somebody needs antidepressants maybe it would be a good idea to reduce workplace stress.
I assumed they meant that the additives made it difficult to detect that the milk had gone off and so it was easier to get sick from it.
To you point however, I don't understand how that could have increased the transmission of TB as that is caused by cows infected with Bovine TB and (AFAIK) that can't simply be detected by taste or smell.
I'm a scifi guy but have read Jane Eyre three times. I don't think I can define the appeal. Or why I connect Jane with Beth Harmon and perhaps Lisbeth Salandar.
It’s saying (poorly) that women afflicted by hyperemesis gravidarum couldn’t keep fluids down- today, IV fluids bypass this problem, and are extremely effective.
The sad thing is there are also very successful oral fluid replacement regimes, but they are hard & not intuitive.
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While living there, I swore to myself I would never live in a trailer again and stated "I would rather live in a tent." Which I did, in actual fact, do for some years at a later date.
I got healthier while sleeping in a tent and desperately poor.
Doctors used to take their little black bag and do house calls. This allowed them to know a lot of things about your life without asking and to factor that into their diagnosis and treatment.
I think medicine is worse off for no longer doing that and I think Sick Building Syndrome is much more prevalent than people realize.
Unfortunately it seems kind of taboo to point this out to people. I know people who are 100 pound or more overweight and are getting back surgeries and knee and ankle replacements. The rational thing to do would be to tell them to lose weight first to reduce the strain on the joints. Or if somebody needs antidepressants maybe it would be a good idea to reduce workplace stress.
> Dr Suzannah Lipscomb show us the dangerous ways the Victorians adulterated food and its deadly consequences.
Apparently they added something to milk which made it smell ok even whem spoiled. But causing tuberculosis and killing huge amounts of ppls.
To you point however, I don't understand how that could have increased the transmission of TB as that is caused by cows infected with Bovine TB and (AFAIK) that can't simply be detected by taste or smell.
I watched the 2011 film and wondered if I might enjoy reading the book now I know what will happen. But you've convinced me to give it a go.
I know it's not quite the same but I'm Reading through the Anne of Green Gables series and thoroughly enjoying it.
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The sad thing is there are also very successful oral fluid replacement regimes, but they are hard & not intuitive.
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