Heavy Kevy
Stalwart
- Messages
- 342
- Reaction score
- 200
- Points
- 93
«Setting the disease into the ground» was a common treatment principle (4). To conduct diseases into the ground, the patient could, for example, place on the ground an arm that was twitching during a seizure. «Shoving», i.e. pulling the patient through a natural opening, such as a stone crevice or a hollow tree, could also help prevent seizures (Figure 2).
Figure 2 Shoving was one of several methods used to cure epilepsy. Here a child is pulled through a hole in a tree, photo from 1922
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Figure 2 Shoving was one of several methods used to cure epilepsy. Here a child is pulled through a hole in a tree, photo from 1922