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Before the advent of antibiotics, what did people do to treat bladder infections?

Asked by MissAnthrope (21511points) September 18th, 2009

I’m more prone than average to bladder infections and every time I get one, I wonder how they were dealt with before antibiotics. Given the severity of some of mine, if I lived back then, I figure I’d probably have died by now.

Is there some sort of natural treatment or did people die of bladder infections?

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