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    Sarah Zhang‏Verified account @sarahzhang 22 Feb 2021

    I wrote about something I've thinking about a lot recently: 19th century doctors were themselves obsessed with ventilation. How did we manage to forget that? 1/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/bad-air/618106/ …

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      2. Sarah Zhang‏Verified account @sarahzhang 22 Feb 2021

        Florence Nightingale was the original ventilation influencer. As a nurse in the Crimean War, she saw 10x soldiers die of disease than wounds. She was also a pioneering statistician. This is her famous infographic illustrating deaths during the war 2/pic.twitter.com/3Ey3GKGfEt

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      3. Sarah Zhang‏Verified account @sarahzhang 22 Feb 2021

        Nightingale popularizing pavilion-plan hospitals, which had big windows that created cross breezes between the beds. She even calculated how many cubic feet of air each patient needed. 3/ 📷: Gettypic.twitter.com/DlyXlz3xYs

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      4. Sarah Zhang‏Verified account @sarahzhang 22 Feb 2021

        By the way, the windows stayed open even in the dead of winter because air! One historian told me stories of patients closing windows, nursing opening them, and then finally doctors knocking the glass out so the windows stayed open. 4/

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      5. Sarah Zhang‏Verified account @sarahzhang 22 Feb 2021

        Ventilation changed the very architecture of 19th century buildings. In the Palace of Westminster, the Victoria Tower and Big Ben were actually ventilation towers too. A quarter of the building's physical space is its old ventilation system, now sitting unused. 5/pic.twitter.com/vUBAjF5DbB

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      6. Sarah Zhang‏Verified account @sarahzhang 22 Feb 2021

        Lastly, this essay was a little paean to my apartment because I am moving this week. (😬) Don't worry, the new apartment is also old and it will also have radiators—and more importantly, windows that open! (Why do new apartment buildings all have windows that barely open?) /endpic.twitter.com/NM0XQKopOY

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      7. Sarah Zhang‏Verified account @sarahzhang 22 Feb 2021

        Here's the story:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/bad-air/618106/ …

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      8. Sarah Zhang‏Verified account @sarahzhang 22 Feb 2021

        Sarah Zhang Retweeted Caroline Wazer

        Also #ff @CarolineWazer who found this gem of a report by a ventilation expert utterly appalled by the state of air in DChttps://twitter.com/carolinewazer/status/1293550727118434307 …

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        I can't believe I haven't already tweeted about early ventilation expert Lewis W. Leeds' 1871 report on ventilation in the U.S. Capitol pic.twitter.com/ZaUVpHgG11
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      2. Vamsi Aribindi‏ @aribindi 22 Feb 2021
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        There is definitely value in forgotten practices- but the problem is figuring which practices have value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lown … Dr. Bernard Lown showed that a strict bedrest protocol for heart attack patients resulted in more patients dying of blood clots than anything else

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      3. Vamsi Aribindi‏ @aribindi 22 Feb 2021
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        Strict bedrest had been standard of care for decades. This is the prob. with so many practices that came from a time before the evidence based/experimental era of medicine. Lots of value, lots of junk toohttps://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/tu-youyou …

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