[Tax-chick]

treated ... after the old system of practice, with purging, by calomel and otherwise, and blistering.

Or he might have lived.

[Pontiac]

Cholera in 1850

I doubt it.

Tens of thousand die of it every year today

[Jamestown1630]

I’m wondering how long it will be before some of our current cancer treatments will be similarly outmoded.

People do what they can do, with what they understand at the moment. We just don’t understand enough, yet - and it seems to have been ever thus.

[minnesota_bound]

Looks like the doctors killed another patient.
I read that all the probing for the bullet ended up killing President James Garfield

Wiki: Doctors continued to probe Garfield’s wound with dirty, unsterilized fingers and instruments, attempting to find the bullet,[53] and Alexander Graham Bell devised a metal detector specifically to find it.

He was unsuccessful, partly because Garfield’s metal bed frame made the instrument malfunction, and partly because self-appointed chief physician Doctor Willard Bliss allowed Bell to use the device only on Garfield’s right side, where Bliss insisted the bullet had lodged.[54] Bell’s subsequent tests indicated that his metal detector was in good working order and that he would have found the bullet had he been allowed to use the device on Garfield’s left side