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Often harsh, violent cures were undertaken, such as for diphtheria, where the surgeon might slit open his patient’s throat and keep the windpipe open by using fishing hooks.  For broken bones the doctor would rig up a traction devise, using rope and either a flatiron or horseshoes for counter weight.  Medicine, on the whole, had progressed very little from colonial times.