Do You Know The United States Has Performed Many Ancient Medical Surgical Operations, And Today Still Regularly Perform These Operations?

[Sunrising]

Bloodletting historically in the United States was used as a cure-all treatment for almost any illness, and was believed to stem from particularly an excess of blood.

George Washington was given this treatment for a sore throat and contributed to his death by throwing his body into hemorrhagic shock.

Mercury & Arsenic injections were the mainstay of medical treatment of syphilis in the United States until around 1943-1947.

These harsh treatments, often administered via painful injections or highly toxic regimens, aimed to kill the bacteria but frequently caused severe, sometimes fatal, poisoning in patients.

Patients suffered from excessive salvation, severe tremors, kidney damage, rotting jaws, tooth loss, through mercury poisoning, and because syphilis naturally goes into long latent periods, doctors mistakenly believed these horrific side effects meant the "poison" of the disease was successfully leaving the body.

Tobacco Smoke Enemas and liquid enemas were practiced in the United States by American medical practitioners for colic, bowel obstructions, and resuscitation, and this bizarre practice is the literal origin of the modern idiom "blowing smoke up your ass".

This treatment was finally abandoned because doctors realised it lacked medical efficacy and carried a high risk of fatal nicotine poisoning, as excess nicotine actually halts blood circulation.

A. I did know the United States implements Ancient medical practices in the 21st Century.

B. I didn't know the United States implements Ancient medical practices in the 21st Century.

C. Something else.

Updates

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Regarding George Washington The United States President's death.

December 12th he rode his horse in freezing snow and sleet.

December 13th he woke up with a severe sore throat.

December 14th four physicians performed repeated bloodletting, removing roughly 40% to 60% of his total blood volume in less than a day.

George Washington passed away late in the evening at age 67

His final words before passing away were to his physicians "let me know how you'd like to proceed ".

[sage2021]

When I was very sick and an inpatient in a wellness center for 6 months, I had a very old Chinese woman doctor.

Once a month I would get a lot of blood drawn, many tubes all at once and I wondered why.🤷🏼‍♀️

So when she finally came to visit me, I asked her why she orders so much blood work every month. Her answer was "Bloodletting". She said to get the old blood out and replace it with new blood would help me to get better. And she was right.

Now they heal horses that have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with arsenic. But they don't give it to humans.

I once saw a medical program and this man had too much copper in his body and became very ill. So he had Bloodletting treatments once a month. Also known as phlebotomy.

[AngryCarl3]

I think you mean the 20th century. They also used radium for medicinal purposes. Hey, they did their best. I'm sure a lot of doctors also died from handling such poisonous chemicals.

[DryGermanGuy]

The people dying from Radium "treatments" are probably the most insane chapter in American quackery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor

[Anonymous]

Your title says that these operations are still being performed in the US, but everything you cited in the body of your post happened 80 or more years ago.

[DryGermanGuy]

See it this way - a dead patient can't sue his kook "doctor".

[WhitneySnow]

Nobody still does this. At least, not licensed M. D. s.

[_Jenny_]

@Sunrising I didn’t know that either

[Paige2006]

I didn't know it but it makes sense

[Anonymous]

I didn't know but Nothing really surprises me