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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Arsenic compounds have antimicrobial, antiviral, and antiparasitic properties and were used in cancer treatments prior to the discovery of antibiotics. You can read more here [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860286/#:~:text=In%20the%201970s%2C%20arsenic%20trioxide,the%20clinical%20use%20of%20arsenicals](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8860286/#:~:text=In%20the%201970s%2C%20arsenic%20trioxide,the%20clinical%20use%20of%20arsenicals).
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