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wounds at home.
This home-grown confidence and knowledge served both as an alternative to and ongoing support for professional aid.
Common treatments given to people during the Victorian age included bleeding, purging, plastering,Moncler Men's Jackets, sweating, amputation and blistering.
These techniques are not often found in use today,ugg classic short, but at the time helped many people alleviate symptoms of a variety of painful disorders.
Plastering was a treatment that used a paste made from a range of ingredients including mud or plaster and then applying such substances in the affected area of the patient to relieve internal pain or cold.
Bleeding was done in an attempt to relieve high blood pressure, sweating was thought to expel poisons from the body, and amputation was possible for the first time as a viable alternative to gangrene.
Poultices were also used for bites, boils and wounds. Poultice ingredients could be as commonplaces as milk and bread to exotic herbs and cow manure.
Purging involved providing a patient with heavy dose of emetics or laxatives to expel "poisons" from an individual's body.
Surgery in the Victorian age became more sophisticated and safer through the usage of antiseptic medicines and the beginnings of aseptic technique.
However, during this time while these developments were welcomed, many remained dependent on household manuals for everyday medical treatment.
These historical home remedies occasionally even offer symptom relief from various chronic ailments even today.
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