Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669)
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp (1632)
Medicine practiced 400 years ago was in it's infancy as compared to today and yet it was the Eygptians, thousands of years before Christ, who knew that honey was a natural antibiotic. Have we discarded too much of the old in favor of the new? We may have life saving drugs now, but we also have black box warnings about them. |
