Erin Allman-Updike

And it exhibits – I think there are some – there's an entire paper actually that I found this in that was like discussing –

what this represents in terms of the history of burn treatment and where things stood.

So the author of that was a medical doctor named Daniel Drake, who was actually one of like a famous doctor at the time.

And he wrote this about his own experience.

And he was the editor of a journal.

And he was like, I need to tell everyone about this, like all of these.

And I think the realization that he came to was like,

All of these treatments, we have so many different treatments and none seem to have a positive effect.

Like if anything, they might have made things worse.

Yes.

Yeah.

The article, if you're interested, is titled History of Two Cases of Burn Producing Serious Constitutional Irritations by Daniel Drake.

It was published in 1830.

And the paper that I found this in was called Daniel Drake's Account of His Own Hand Burns by Eric Mooney.

That was published in like 1998, I think.

So yeah, truly awful stuff.

But hi, I'm Erin Welsh.

And I'm Erin Allman Updike.

And this is This Podcast Will Kill You.

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