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actually it goes further back than that…… in one of the 1st neanderthal site burials, the body of a man was nearly embedded in fossilized pollen…tests found that the pollen was that of yarrow & foxglove, both of which are recognized to have medicinal value even today (foxglove is digitalis; not sure what yarrow is for but something to do w/arthritis relief)….there was no way for the plants to have gotten there by accident; they had to have been brought in deliberately & in many so. american sites, skulls have been found that have been "trepanned" i.e. holes were cut in the skulls, probably to release what were thought to be evil spirits….not that this was any less barbaric than lobotomies….but the survival rate wasnt any lower… susan – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – A few years back a frozen body, of a man who died 5,000 years ago, was found in the Alps. There were recent news reports about how he was carrying herbal remedies for parasites. People were amazed that humans had any medical knowledge so long ago, although it was considered rather primitive. Imagine how primitive our psychiatrists will appear only a few decades in the future. Prozac, Lithium, etc. will be looked at with the same disdain that today’s doctors have for the frozen man’s herbs. Stuck

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 I seem to remember in one of the Star Trek movies, Dr. McCoy called  20th Century style surgery "barbaric".

Brain surgery, too. Imagine what he’d say about ECT. Stuck waiting for Captain Kirk’s diagnosis

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Who ever the original poster is….he/she must have met my therapist. She’s about that old :) .

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A few years back a frozen body, of a man who died 5,000 years ago, was found in the Alps. There were recent news reports about how he was carrying herbal remedies for parasites. People were amazed that humans had any medical knowledge so long ago, although it was considered rather primitive. Imagine how primitive our psychiatrists will appear only a few decades in the future. Prozac, Lithium, etc. will be looked at with the same disdain that today’s doctors have for the frozen man’s herbs. Stuck

I seem to remember in one of the Star Trek movies, Dr. McCoy called 20th Century style surgery "barbaric". — Melissa I want my soul back.

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A few years back a frozen body, of a man who died 5,000 years ago, was found in the Alps. There were recent news reports about how he was carrying herbal remedies for parasites. People were amazed that humans had any medical knowledge so long ago, although it was considered rather primitive. Imagine how primitive our psychiatrists will appear only a few decades in the future. Prozac, Lithium, etc. will be looked at with the same disdain that today’s doctors have for the frozen man’s herbs.

I think in a few decades that modern-day oncology will appear even more primitive, as compared to the field of psychiatry.  Gene therapy and anti-cancer vaccines look very promising.  As these techniques become perfected, the thought of anti-cancer surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments will look so barbaric and inhumane. As for mental illness, I don’t see any major advances being made.  My hope would be that steady progress will occur, and in 3-4 decades or so, mental illness will be virtually eradicated by the use of very long-acting medications, gene therapies, tissue and nerve regeneration, and perhaps some anti-microbial agents or vaccines.

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Well talk about old doctors mine is ancient…. and said if I expect the meds. to make my eye brows fall out so I don’t have to pluck them then thts what the meds will do…. Unforunately he isn’t very comforting…. but he is free.. and so are the meds… so I tolrate it to live…. Nancy – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -A few years back a frozen body, of a man who died 5,000 years ago, was found in the Alps. There were recent news reports about how he was carrying herbal remedies for parasites. People were amazed that humans had any medical knowledge so long ago, although it was considered rather primitive. Imagine how primitive our psychiatrists will appear only a few decades in the future. Prozac, Lithium, etc. will be looked at with the same disdain that today’s doctors have for the frozen man’s herbs. Stuck

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A few years back a frozen body, of a man who died 5,000 years ago, was found in the Alps. There were recent news reports about how he was carrying herbal remedies for parasites. People were amazed that humans had any medical knowledge so long ago, although it was considered rather primitive. Imagine how primitive our psychiatrists will appear only a few decades in the future. Prozac, Lithium, etc. will be looked at with the same disdain that today’s doctors have for the frozen man’s herbs. Stuck

and yet ironically the one ad that has worked for me is one of the most "primitive" — nardil It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts   in your head.     Sally Kempton

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A few years back a frozen body, of a man who died 5,000 years ago, was found in the Alps. There were recent news reports about how he was carrying herbal remedies for parasites. People were amazed that humans had any medical knowledge so long ago, although it was considered rather primitive. Imagine how primitive our psychiatrists will appear only a few decades in the future. Prozac, Lithium, etc. will be looked at with the same disdain that today’s doctors have for the frozen man’s herbs. Stuck

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