WHAT REALLY MAKES YOU ILL? - WHY EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT DISEAS IS WRONG

This book will explain what really makes you ill and why everything you
thought you knew about disease is wrong. "Doctors are men who prescribe
medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know
less, in human beings of whom they know nothing." Voltaire. The
conventional approach adopted by most healthcare systems entails the use
of ‘medicine’ to treat human disease. The idea encapsulated by the
above quote attributed to Voltaire, the nom de plume of François-Marie
Arouet (1694-1778), will no doubt be regarded by most people as
inapplicable to 21st century healthcare, especially the system known as
modern medicine. The reason that people would consider this idea to no
longer be relevant is likely to be based on the assumption that ‘medical
science’ has made significant advances since the 18th century and that
21st century doctors therefore possess a thorough, if not quite
complete, knowledge of medicines, diseases and the human body.
Unfortunately, however, this would be a mistaken assumption; as this
book will demonstrate.