On 3/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;">What accounts for the largest part of
overall health/longevity increase is a VERY different question from the
subject line.  I would point out that many of the supposed
non-medicinal contributors were invented or greatly strengthened
and perfected due to our understanding of medical science</div></blockquote></div><br>
Oh absolutely; like I said earlier, I'm including things like hygiene
and sanitation (informed by the germ theory of disease) under the
heading of medicine in the broad sense.<br>