2500 Years of Bad Medicine: The Slow Surrender

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Mar 29, 2026 · 23m

For 25 centuries, doctors drained blood to cure everything from fevers to madness. This episode traces the agonizingly slow collapse of humoral theory—from ancient Greece to the 19th century—and uncovers why scientific truth often waits for a generation to die before it can triumph. We examine the data that broke the consensus, the crises that forced surrender, and the stubborn institutional inertia that kept leeches in use for millennia. Episode 1726 — myweirdprompts.com/n/1726 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/649752)