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Old Dec 12, 2011, 07:29 PM
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Maybe we just haven't discovered the science behind it yet. Do you have to actually visit the New World in 1492 to believe the world is not flat? that is probably not the most reasonable or historically accurate argument, but I think you get my meaning? You use leeches for medical care until something better comes along - they DID help with high blood pressure!
I agree, we haven't even begun to understand the complexities involved. But the brain isn't "just another organ." We know essentially nothing about the brain, compared with the rest of the body. Medicine involving the brain isn't "like" anything else. Thought, memory, processing--we're only beginning to glimpse what's involved.

Leeches, btw, are still being used--haven't been improved on.
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