Wizard Medicine

[tex23236]

No: HPFGUIDX 34685

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jennifer Boggess Ramon <boggles at e...>
wrote:
> At 1:40 AM +0000 2/5/02, tex23236 wrote:
> >Wizard medicine doesn't seem to have kept up with Wizard cooking
> >and transportation.
> 
> Who needs transportation when you can Apparate?  And those who
don't 
> Apparate have brooms, Portkeys, and the Floo network.

Yes, Apparation is a form of transportation.  There's also the Knight
Bus.

> >Mrs. Crouch died of cancer
> Where does it say that?  Crouch Jr. only says she was dying, not
what 
> of.  At any rate, she died in Azkaban, far from any treatment at
all, 
> wizard or Muggle.
> 
You're right. Must have read cancer into the stated teminal illness.
Still, it would seem unusual that such illness (other than entropy) 
would stalk witches without a treatment.  In short, Mrs. Crouch 
simply dying before her time needs more explanation than we get, 
IMHO.


> >and Mrs Riddle died
> >in childbirth.
> 
> In a Muggle Hospital around the 1930s.  If she'd been in a
wizarding 
> hospital, Riddle wouldn't have ended up in a Muggle orphanage.
> 
Hmmm... Okay, I do wonder how she happened to be cut off from
the Wizard world.  Actually, I figure a witch's womb to be Wizard 
Space, so she wouldn't need maternity robes.

> I'm not at all sure one can Accio through skin; if you could,
what's 
> to stop a Death Eater from accio'ing your heart from your chest?
> 
True, it wouldn't be the accio that we know and love.  But I imagine
Wizard surgery would be something similar.  Something like what
Lockheart used to remove Harry's arm bone might work for removing
cancer or an appendix, while cauterizing blood vessels.  The Wizard
version of a Caesarean section would be even more tricky but 
possible.

As for Wizards using it to kill, yes, it would require blocking in a
duel.

tex