• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    One common treatment for chickenpox was to drill a hole in the skull. Shockingly this wasn’t very helpful

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      But drilling a hole in your head did solve some other problems like brain swelling, so without knowing better and having no alternatives, I could see why one would try

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        It would have dealt with the swelling immediately but chances are the patient would have died from infection from the operation.