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Wtf. It's like reading about all those radium based therapies for whatever ails you.
You picked a 'cure' that wasn't tested.
It may seem crazy, but back in the day, artificial pneumothorax was the best thing they had.
I'm sure in the future people will look back at our open surgeries as medieval torture.