It seems like back before modern medicine was a thing, prescribing arsenic for almost all ailments was all the rage. I’m going to assume that people weren’t just idiots in the past and that there was a reason for that.
Do small amounts of arsenic make you feel temporarily good or something like that? Is it a case of arsenic being useful for one specific illness and doctors then prescribing it for everything? Basically, why would they prescribe poison to people???
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I’d say it’s similar to how we use chemotherapy today to kill cancer though it’s harmful to us.
A non-leathal amount to the patient, and hopefully a leathal amount to the disease.
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