[lbo-talk] mass dementia

[Carrol Cox]

I too remember vaguely _some_ accounts of 16th-c witch hunts as
connected (not of course to "modern medicine") to pushing women out of
trades/crafts that had traditionally been theirs. But I'm not at all
sure about this.

I suppose "modern medicine" began with Pasteur, Lister, and whoever
introduced anaesthetics.  All late 196h-c. The introduction of
anti-biotics was the major event since then. Perhaps later the 'end' of
modern medicine will be assoicated with the rise in power of the
pharmaceutical corporations.

Carrol

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> On Aug 20, 2010, at 2:48 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > I remember reading somewhere that the persecution of witches had a lot to do with discrediting herbal-based remedies to make room for "modern" medicine.
> 
> Modern medicine didn't begin until a couple of centuries later.
> 
> Doug
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