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by Spooky23 3543 days ago
The problem was that they didn't know what was effective or not.

Capitalist societies are relatively new. The nobility might have access to a healer, but that healer may be practicing some religious mumbo jumbo. Middle age kings would get a bleeding from a leech and a dose of Jesus.

In China, you'd get traditional medicine that has some legit use cases, but lots of bullshit as well.