I’m wondering how long it will be before some of our current cancer treatments will be similarly outmoded.
People do what they can do, with what they understand at the moment. We just don’t understand enough, yet - and it seems to have been ever thus.
Those are good points. However, even in 1850, treating every disease with chemical purgatives was being challenged by those who observed that cholera patients, for example, lived longer if they were kept cool and given beef broth.