You see we could find a way to stop gasoline from being so explosive by testing and researching new ideas, or we could dump lead into it because it’s cheap. Guess what was done?
Both? I feel like I would really struggle to find leaded petrol today. Much less a car that’ll take it.
From the 1930’s to the 1990’s despite knowing of better alternatives the companies decided that lead was better
You can find it in some kinds of aviation fuel. For small planes in particular
Prescribing amphetamines for weight loss wasn’t far off the mark, though.
It works fucking great. And there are some situations where certain amphetamines are used for it still. It just turns out only certain types of brains can really handle amphetamines all that well and they don’t really function that great without them.
Which is why they are now prescribed for ADHD
Morphine and cocaïne. Truly, The cure all drugs.
Wasn’t lobotomy almost like “fashion” treatment around that time too(1900~)? I recall reading some comment or text saying something like that, but cant remember where.
It was pretty much just a small set of “surgeons” who drove around the country performing lobotomies.
Some were almost like a sideshow, where they started grabbing out brain matter at random and calling it successful, then drive out of town.
It lasted a few years. But most medical practitioners were against it, but the medical board didn’t give a final say. Which is why it was left unchecked. You can thank the disgraced Dr. Walter Jackson Freeman II for his disregard for science, medicine, and human life for popularizing lobotomy.
Electro Shock Therapy (EST) aka Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) on the other hand was rampant for at least a decade or more.
Only reason I know that is because I had to research it for my family tree. At the age of 14, my Great Grandmother was treated for Depression and Anxiety with EST from 1909 to 1913, then got pregnant and lost the baby from it. She stopped the “therapy”, but it left her borderline schizophrenic the rest of her life.
You can’t have depression and anxiety if we torture you every time you show symptoms, am I right guys ? I mean, you either feel better or we shock you for hours and hours, likely causing other irreversible psychological problems and even deep cerebral damage as a bonus.
The scary part is that this “treatment” was acceptable for multiple mental disorders up until the 1960s.
If I remember correctly, It mostly targeted women. Hysteria was also a catch all word for when a wife or a daughter wasn’t obedient enough and it was really a way to assert control over women.
ECT is still used today, actually.
I suspect that was just marketing, but yeah 🤢
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Who else missed that the text is missing the word “to” on the first read?
It might work for me okay if they jammed in the poker and then hooked it into a 480V power line.
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Oh wow lemmy, your linking system totally sucks
You did it backwards
