We don’t really have that strong a taboo. Look at how the alt med groups function quite successfully.
Incidentally, the article in question doesn’t address some things that doctors were successful at before the rise of modern pharmaceuticals. Many types of surgery helped save lives. Amputations from gangrene, removal of bad appendices, and Caesarean sections are all examples that substantially predate the 1940s.
We don’t really have that strong a taboo. Look at how the alt med groups function quite successfully.
Incidentally, the article in question doesn’t address some things that doctors were successful at before the rise of modern pharmaceuticals. Many types of surgery helped save lives. Amputations from gangrene, removal of bad appendices, and Caesarean sections are all examples that substantially predate the 1940s.