[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We were about three days travel from the nearest hospital that could help. So the village healer made a mix of lime juice, salt, boiled water and sugar to keep me hydrated and a mix of green banana and carrots to keep my electrolytes in balance and off we went to the city.

:Shudder:

The cure was almost as bad as the disease

[HKMk23]

I worked with someone who’d had a coworker come down with dysentery while on a project...in India, I think. They couldn’t get the guy the medical help he needed, so they duct-taped heavy plastic around his legs and torso, put him on an airplane, and told the flight attendants to keep him supplied with pleny of water.