Re:Old disease names frequently found on death certificates
by meepmorp on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:15PM
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> Organ failure over a couple days is a walk in the park by comparison
The symptoms of acute arsenic poisoning are vomiting and severe diarrhea, severe stomach pain, convulsions and muscle cramps. Your hair falls out, you vomit and piss blood, then after a few days, you fall into a coma and die.
Doesn't sound markedly better than sepsis.
This is the 1800s we're talking about, a time when people routinely died from infections and sepsis. Organ failure over a couple days is a walk in the park by comparison.
Yeah they both look like crap from a comfy 21st century office chair in an air conditioned building but so does practically every other reality of 19th century life.