[ SECRET POST #3318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3318 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.victorianlondon.org/cassells/cassells-17.htm
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/health-and-medicine-in-the-19th-century/
http://historicaltidbits.blogspot.com/2010/02/scarlet-fever.html
http://imaginationlane.net/blog/victorian-edwardian-cold-and-flu-remedies/
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/science/addiction/addiction2.html

It took me longer to cut and paste those URLs than it did to find them via Google. But that's kind of beside the point. You don't have to be an expert on Victorian medicine to realize that they wouldn't be spouting the exact same (almost clichéd, really!) advice you hear in the 21st century.

[sarillia]

But how long would it take you to actually read all of it, make sure the sources are trustworthy, and learn the information well enough to write it in the context of a story and maybe dialogue rather than sounding like a history book? I'm betting it's significantly longer than five minutes.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, for the first link, the index at the top indicates there's a section specifically for "eruptive fevers", so you can scroll (or do a text search) and skim for the subsections titled "Treatment". That single page lists common diseases, symptoms and recommended course of treatment. So for example, for small pox (sadly common), you see this:

Treatment.-The domestic treatment of a patient with small-pox consists in the administration of light pleasant drinks and simple diet, such as gruel, weak beef tea, milk and tea, barley-water, plain water, tepid sponging; in frequent changes of well-aired linen, and in keeping the patient in a well ventilated room, and in a bed without curtains and that does not unduly heat the patient. The room should be as thinly furnished and as free from curtains and carpets as possible, as the contagion of smallpox is very intense, and gathers about such things. For the relief of irritation in the eruption, olive oil may be applied, or equal parts of glycerine and rose-water, after bathing with tepid water. The medical treatment will of course devolve upon a medical man. In places where a medical man is not to be had, the above treatment is the most important. Violent purging should be abstained from. If the patient has been unvaccinated - and, indeed, in any severe case - the greatest danger sets in about the eleventh day of the disease, and the eighth of the eruption. The fever then increases and the swelling of the skin and face is greatest, and renders the patient both uncomfortable and most unseemly to behold. Delirium, twitchings, or diarrhoea are bad symptoms at this stage. If the anti-vaccinationists could see a case at this stage of the disease often, they would talk more gratefully and sensibly about vaccination. The patient now requires to be well supported by strong beef tea, and if much depressed, and the spots do not fill well, by wine.

It might take longer than five minutes to read it, but finding it took less than one minute. Inserting it into the context of the story doesn't have to be hard. Instead of this:

"Drink plenty of fluids," said Watson kindly, "I recommend juice."

You have this:

"Take gruel and plenty of barley water," said Watson kindly, "Or some weak beef tea."

I mean... the resource is so detailed you could use a great deal of that one paragraph alone.

[(Anonymous)]

"Researching is HARD and takes too long!"
"Here are a bunch of resources I found using Google that took less than a minute."
"But reading all of that would take too much time. Like, way more than five minutes! And writng is HARD."
"Not if you actually look at the helpful index at the top of the page that clearly marks out the relevant section. Then you could practically cut and paste the pertinent info into your fic."

*crickets*

"Um... Well maybe you can't trust the information you found so easily, so HA!"

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