AGE OF HEROIC MEDICINE

Specialty Definition: Heroic medicine

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Heroic medicine is any aggressive conventional medical practice or method of treatment that makes people suffer, get sick, get weak and run down and/or die.
During the so-called Age of Heroic Medicine (1780 - 1850), educated professional physicians aggressively practiced heroic medicine which consisted of blood-letting (venesection), intestinal purging (calomel [mercury chloride]), vomiting (tartar emetic), profuse sweating (diaphoretics) and blistering. The death of George Washington, on December 14, 1799, may have partially resulted from shock from blood-letting.
Some alternative healers have called chemotherapy and radiation therapy "the heroic medicine of the modern era". Such categorizations ignore the studies that show the effectiveness of these treatments in curing previously untreatable disease.[1] [1]
Physicians originally treated diseases like syphilis with salves made from mercury[1]; however, it is now known that mercury is highly toxic[1].
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heroic medicine."

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