{"id":6595,"date":"2012-09-07T07:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2012-09-05T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T17:14:37","slug":"a-short-history-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6595","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n“Doctor, I have an ear ache.”<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n2000 B.C. – “Here, eat this root.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1000 B.C. – “That root is heathen, say this prayer.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1850 A.D. – “That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1940 A.D. – “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.”<\/span><\/p>\n

1985 A.D. – “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.”<\/span><\/p>\n

2000 A.D. – “That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root!”<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Doctor, I have an ear ache.” 2000 B.C. – “Here, eat this root.” 1000 B.C. – “That root is heathen, say this prayer.” 1850 A.D. – “That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.” 1940 A.D. – “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.” 1985 A.D. – “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.” 2000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193],"tags":[132,104,75],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline","tag-aging","tag-humor","tag-medicare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1In","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}