Medical care before 1600 involved a wide variety of tactics: 'holistic' lifestyle prescriptions and diets based on the theory of humors; direct applications of various substances alone or in combination; bloodletting, cauterization and cupping; use of holy relics and prayers as well as other ritual/magical actions; and prayers to saints, charity, pilgrimages and other 'acts of virtue'. more
Medicine is different now in many ways. How is it the same? For example, do doctors use leeches to suck blood? Do they prescribe medicinal herbs?
