My dad's doctor actually did! He said since it seemed there were problems with feeling oxygen deprived, and we lived at high altitude, try taking a visit to the ocean.
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Oh, if I was picking something for an old timey doctor to prescribe me it would probably be laudanum
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Man goes to doctor. Says the town is rundown and depressing with major heroin problem. Doctor says treatment is simple: “go to famous seaside town Blackpool. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. “But Doctor, this is Blackpool!”
how about a hitachi and a speedball
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"Take a trip to the seaside, it'll cure what ails you." "Doctor, I cannot afford that." "Leeches it is then!"
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In Czechia they still prescribe visits to the spa
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they still do though..
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It's not because your not in the right time period it's because your not rich
Dunno, I have been prescribed times in rehab clinics and there are such clinics in seaside locations.
Mine still does, in fact that's the only thing he actually prescribes. Well, he recommends walking in the mountains, but that's because seaside is 8 hours away but mountains are only 30 minutes.
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It helps to spend time away from the spooky ghosts haunting the manor.
What about going to the thermae and an olive oil scrapping?
"Come out to the coast, we'll get together and have a few laughs"
"not to romanticize the medical practices of the early 1900s", but let's romanticize fixing your depression with a seaside prescription.
What is this idiotic post?
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