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Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by bewaretheirs » Sun, May 23, 2021, 4:53 AM UTC

burnished wrote: post #23

ip26 wrote: post #11

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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.

What are those techniques? I'm quite intrigued by 'not intuitive'.

Water + salts + glucose given orally in the correct ratio; you need water, sugar, sodium, and potassium for it to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_rehydration_therapy

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by tapland » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:06 AM UTC

spaetzleesser wrote: post #26

halsom wrote: post #16

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Doctors still do house calls, but if you’re poor then you’re lucky to be seeing a doctor at all. Neither of these things have changed.

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.

They did in Sweden as wheel until the early 90s

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by AdrianB1 » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:11 AM UTC

dboreham wrote: post #24

halsom wrote: post #16

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Doctors still do house calls, but if you’re poor then you’re lucky to be seeing a doctor at all. Neither of these things have changed.

Unless you live in a country with universal healthcare.

There is no relation between universal healthcare and house visits. I live in a country with universal healthcare where house calls don't exist.

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by chadcmulligan » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

rspoerri wrote: post #12

Reminds me of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo > 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.

They used to water it down to - but weren't to particular about where the water came from - the local creek etc.

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by btowngar » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:41 AM UTC

perl4ever wrote: post #28

rspoerri wrote: post #12

Reminds me of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo > 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.

Additives put tuberculosis in milk? Are you sure it wasn't the cows that had TB?

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.

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by bryanrasmussen » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:48 AM UTC

AdrianB1 wrote: post #33

dboreham wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you live in a country with universal healthcare.

There is no relation between universal healthcare and house visits. I live in a country with universal healthcare where house calls don't exist.

I believe the parent commenter was noting that with universal healthcare the relation to poverty and not being to see the doctor was not longer a problem.

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by bryanrasmussen » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:49 AM UTC

spaetzleesser wrote: post #26

halsom wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doctors still do house calls, but if you’re poor then you’re lucky to be seeing a doctor at all. Neither of these things have changed.

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.

In Denmark they did a housecall for my daughter when she was about 1 year old and it was possible she had pneumonia and it was a weekend.

on edit: I remember when I was living in Germany about the age of 7 I had a fever of 40 and the doctor did a housecall.

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by publicola1990 » Sun, May 23, 2021, 5:56 AM UTC

Branwell Bronte, their brother also died young.

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by n3storm » Sun, May 23, 2021, 6:03 AM UTC

tapland wrote: post #32

spaetzleesser wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They did in Sweden as wheel until the early 90s

* as well

Re: Why the Bronte sisters may have died so young (2019)

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Post by simonh » Sun, May 23, 2021, 6:10 AM UTC

AdrianB1 wrote: post #33

dboreham wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you live in a country with universal healthcare.

There is no relation between universal healthcare and house visits. I live in a country with universal healthcare where house calls don't exist.

Here in the UK I didn’t think house calls exist, but then my wife got a severe chest infection while she was pregnant on a weekend. I called the NHS help line, and there was a doctor with us in 4 hours.