Well, THIS is ridiculously one-sided. I mean, while a number of the things it says are TRUE - up until only a few centuries ago, any kind of surgery was an exceptionally agonizing business (hell, dentists only started using anesthetic sometime in the mid-20th century) - this seems to imply that the true study of medicine basically sprang into being full-formed sometime in the mid-1800's, following an abortive attempt by the ancient Greeks. Do tell. I'm sure all the doctors and herbalists and midwives and healers and shamans and alchemists and wise men and whatnot going back thousands and thousands of years would be VERY interested to hear that. I fear that this is an early result of the stealthy hand of the pharmaceutical companies. Even then, its touch was felt. I mean, seriously, the amount of sheer ignorance of basic herbal and homeopathic cures displayed by your average M.D is astounding. A few years back, when I got my wisdom teeth taken out, I was prescribed a pill for the pain that barely worked at all. Luckily, my Mom had a homeopathic remedy on hand that worked about a thousand times better - and when she mentioned this to the doctor later, NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE BUILDING had heard of it!