The level of ignorance of this basic, basic historical fact is just completely astounding on this website sometimes. It was called natural philosophy for Chris

The level of ignorance of this basic, basic historical fact is just completely astounding on this website sometimes. It was called natural philosophy for Christ's sake. Modern medicine's forefather was heroic medicine, based on modulating the 4 humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile). We didn't zap into existence with the hard sciences being hard. We made them that way through centuries of intellectual effort, almost all of which turned out to be wrong!