Comment on Medieval medicine was smarter than you think—and weirdly similar to TikTok trends

breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

They were developing health practices based on the best knowledge they had at the time

The key part of the phrase. They didn’t have a lot of knowledge, and couldn’t have until fundamental medical principles were discovered in the 20th century. The fact that they used things similar to modern day pseudoscientific “alternative” medicine, like detox, with little effect is not really surprising, that is where this kind of thing will always lead you.

The surprising thing is a historian of medicine treating it as some kind of mindblowing revelation.

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