celeste@kbin.earthtoUplifting News@lemmy.world•Woman swept to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach rescued 37 hours later and 50 miles away
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2 months agoIt’s amazing she lived and amazing she was found!
It’s amazing she lived and amazing she was found!
I had the idea that electricity had been tried for paralysis, and I looked it up and ben franklin did experiments to try and cure it with shocks.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16717219/
I wonder if the difference was targeting? The type of paralysis? The podcast Sawbones did an episode on the history of electricity in medicine that was pretty interesting. I might relisten.
Yeah, and if a conviction is based almost entirely on interrogation, be suspicious. Maybe torture doesn’t get useful facts, but it does get false confessions.