At 02:15 PM 03/18/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 3/18/2001 1:06:40 PM Central Standard Time,
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>> Forgive me, but define "medical technology" in context.  For longer than
>> the records of Charles' tribe there have been the equivalent of doctors
>> who've amassed and passsed on a great deal of medical knowledge, used
>> medicines, done surgery...  And if you leave out obvious abberations like
>> christian "demons" from Europe, a great deal of it was at least as
>> scientific--and probably more objective--as what we currently have, just
>> with cruder equipment.
>>
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>I just had to toss in a tidbit about medical technology....
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>The iceman that was found in the Austrian/Italian Alps had tattoos on him
>that corresponded to acupuncture meridians that are used in treatment of bad
>back. He also carried (supposedly) medicinal mushrooms.
>The iceman was found to be over 5000 years old and known acupuncture therapy
>was thought to have been created a thousand years later than the iceman...who
>knows how long they were practicing this medical technology.
>I thought this was fascinating...saw it on The Discovery Channel.
>
>Mary C

        I wouldn't give modern medicine credit for these ways of health care.
Acupuncture was not created by the AMA nor were the use of mushrooms to my
knowledge but they will eventually try to incorporate anything that seems
to be the most profitable with popular opinion.
        I just wasn't in agreement with Charles about medicine being the reason
for extended life spans if that is what he meant?

Dave