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In reply to the discussion: Either you believe in the scientific method or you don't [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Of course your definition of extremely short is one you only believe.
But a witch doctor to whom a baby was taken might have read the sign that the baby was sick because it was dehydrated. So the witch doctor gave the baby some water and the baby survived and prospered.
That's one way medical science began.
Did you know the first mainstream doctors were carpenters? Yep. Because the medical science of the day, back then; cut the arm off. Well, who had a saw? A carpenter. So they took the ill person to the carpenter. Now carpenters, in the whole being rather smart fellows, began to think... hmmmm, maybe I don't need to cut an arm off? Maybe all we need to do is try this herb. So they did try an alternative, and they then read the signs of what the herb did. Did it seem to work? Why, yes it did!
There and then began medical science. We've come a long way, but we are not at the end yet. But... in the end, we all die. No. Matter. What.