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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.
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I remember seeing a period drama on TV once.......can't remember what the programme was, but I think it was set in the 1900s or maybe the 1910s/20s.
Might have been Dr. Finlay's Casebook.
Anyway, there was a woman who for years hadn't dared set foot outside the house because of what she considered to be a curse.
Long story short, the 'curse' she had endured for years and years was a urinary fistula, a hole in the bladder which caused urine to leak into the vagina. Because of this, urine would escape constantly via the vagina, causing incontinence over which she had no control. Hence she was housebound, due to the shame of being constantly wet and smelly, and needing to wash all the time.
It was a drama, but it is an actual condition which can occur, but which now is put right straight away by surgery. Imagine having had to endure that for years, and never go out.
And all because she had no money for doctors.
A lot of these sort of conditions would have been repairable by surgery long before the days of anaesthesia or the idea of asepsis during surgery. There was nothing wrong with the surgeon's techniques in a lot of cases, just that there was a lot of pain involved, and then a horrific loss of patients from post operative infections.
Been a long time since I read it, but "The Triumph of Surgery" by Jurgen Thorwald is worth a read. It's not for anyone who is squeamish about that sort of thing though.0 -
I was shocked to learnt that the first surgeon to carry out antiseptic surgery only died in 1912 which sounds far too recentThere is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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It used to be legal for any adult to dock a dog's tail if it was under 7 days old. Ages ago (in the 90s or even the 80s I think) they changed the law so it's only legal for qualified vets to dock tails. Vets have a code of practice that says they're not supposed to remove any part of a tail except for medical reasons - for example if the tail has been injured - but there are still a few who don't abide by the code. There are also docked dogs who have been imported from countries where docking is still common.
IIRC, it's also still legal for working dogs to be docked, to prevent potential injury if they get their tail snagged in undergrowth, etc.0 -
Joseph Lister? It's all in that book I mentioned. I think (without looking) that it was in the 1860s that aseptic surgery was first used.
Lister was the first to use the idea in surgery, but the idea itself came from a Hungarian obstetrician called Semmelweiss, who first discovered that maternal mortality due to puerperal fever could be massively reduced if midwives and obstetricians washed their hands - especially between doing autopsies on dead mothers and babies and going on to deliver live ones. :eek:Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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PasturesNew wrote: »Gate's done. I've earnt myself a couple of hot sausage rolls ....
Well done for doing the gate, but I'm afraid that it knocks your score for procrastination down a fair bit. No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Yes, I was watching something about that not so very long ago. Didn't he notice that the mothers on one side of the ward suffered a much lower mortality rate? They were the ones on the side away from the mortuary. . . :eek:Lister was the first to use the idea in surgery, but the idea itself came from a Hungarian obstetrician called Semmelweiss, who first discovered that maternal mortality due to puerperal fever could be massively reduced if midwives and obstetricians washed their hands - especially between doing autopsies on dead mothers and babies and going on to deliver live ones. :eek:
Like most inventions and discoveries I'll take a guess that other's discoveries came into Lister's conclusions.0 -
Yes, I was watching something about that not so very long ago. Didn't he notice that the mothers on one side of the ward suffered a much lower mortality rate? They were the ones on the side away from the mortuary. . . :eek:
Like most inventions and discoveries I'll take a guess that other's discoveries came into Lister's conclusions.
They had two wards - women were assigned to one on one day, the other the next, and back to the first one - so effectively randomly. One ward was staffed only by midwives (who didn't do autopsies) and always had a much lower mortality rate than the other ward, which had doctors (who did do them). He discovered that handwashing made all the difference and wrote papers about it that were published in medical journals, or wrote letters to maternity hospitals all over Europe, I think. Mostly, his ideas were not accepted, but Lister read one of his papers, or talked to one of his students (and converts to handwashing) or otherwise heard about it, and realised it would also apply to surgery, since he was a surgeon not an obstetrician.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
"I am confident we are making the right decision."
I wish I felt that confident about decisions. No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
"I am confident we are making the right decision."
I wish I felt that confident about decisions.
I don't about all decisions. But I do about this one. She needs a home where she can play fetch safely away from other dogs, and owners who are happy making her wear a muzzle when she goes anywhere where there are going to be balls and other dogs in the same space. Such homes exist, but we are not one of them.
It helps that I am getting affirmation about the decision from lots of my FB friends, many of whom knew Avatar Dog and are therefore familiar with my previous dog experience, and especially Friend Dog's owner, who witnessed the incident.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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