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-Most doctors rely on a variety of different drugs, as well as the art of bloodletting (24), which is the most common cure for cholera, believed to release the disease from the bloodstream. (25)

-Smallpox is often allowed to run its natural course, perhaps through isolating the patient in a hot, unventilated room. Drugs are rarely prescribed. (26)

-Typhus is another disease that often goes untreated because the best defense against it is cleanliness and a clean water supply. (27)

-Tuberculosis is believed to be incurable so hospitalization is considered to be charitable. (28)

-Bed rest is considered the best prescription for influenza. (29)

-Therapeutics stress prevention for gout through the use of bandages, ointments, and gentle evacuations. (30)

-We are just beginning to see the first testings done on smallpox with the new pox virus. (31)