Globalist Reality Report

[janice shell]

It wasn't until the early Renaissance that the first discoveries about how to successfully treat common diseases first took place.

That's not entirely true. The Greeks were very interested in medicine, and made a number of discoveries. They were better at diagnosis than at creating treatments, much less cures, but that stuff is very hard. Even now, there are a great many diseases that can be treated, but not cured.

Surgery was performed in the ancient world. Sometimes it worked; sometimes it didn't. For example, trepanning was common--the word is derived from the Greek--and in a somewhat different form, it's still used today. Evidently the Empress Theodora developed breast cancer in her 40s. According to anecdotal reports, a mastectomy was suggested, but she refused it.