Cured.si
The AI guide to the history of medicine's great cures
From smallpox vaccination to penicillin to insulin, learn how humanity's landmark medical breakthroughs were discovered and proven - and how that process still works today. Educational history only, not medical advice.
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Landmark breakthroughs
How vaccines, antibiotics, and insulin were discovered, tested, and proven.
How a cure gets proven
Germ theory, controlled trials, and the process behind modern medical evidence.
Remedies and quackery
The long, strange history of treatments that worked - and many that didn't.
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The history of medical cures
Educational history of how treatments were discovered and validated. Not medical advice - always consult a licensed professional for health concerns.
Landmark breakthroughs
- Smallpox vaccine — Edward Jenner's 1796 cowpox inoculation, the first vaccine, eventually eradicating smallpox by 1980.
- Penicillin — Discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928; mass-produced for troops by the mid-1940s.
- Insulin — Isolated by Frederick Banting and Charles Best in 1921, turning diabetes from fatal to manageable.
- Polio vaccine — Jonas Salk's inactivated vaccine (1955) and Albert Sabin's oral vaccine (1961) nearly ended polio.
How a cure is proven
- Germ theory — Pasteur and Koch's 19th-century work showing microorganisms, not 'bad air', cause disease.
- Randomized controlled trials — Comparing a treated group against a control group to isolate a treatment's real effect.
- Regulatory approval — Modern drugs pass phased human trials before agencies like the FDA approve wider use.
Remedies and quackery
- Ancient herbalism — The Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BC Egypt) lists hundreds of plant-based remedies and spells.
- Humourism — Galen's ancient theory that illness came from imbalanced bodily fluids, dominant for centuries.
- Patent medicine era — 19th-century US saw unregulated 'cure-all' tonics, many later shown to be useless or harmful.
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