“Doc, I have an earache.”
2000 B.C. “Here, eat this root.”
1000 B.C. “That root is heathen, say this prayer.”
1850 A.D. “Prayer is superstition, drink this potion.”
1930 “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.”
1970 “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.”
2000 “That antibiotic is artificial, here, eat this root.”
Anonymus – “History of Medicine”, spread on the Internet between 1997 and 1998, source: 106 utne reader, http://www.hsc.stonybrook.edu/som/fammed/newsletters/VOL1398F.htm, Quotations book 2009