The superstition to which different healing practices were attributed to brought the European physician back to a period widely acknowledged in the West as "already overcome" and belonging to the history of medicine, studied and used in schools and faculties of medicine until recent, precisely in order to glorify the modern scientific method.
La superstición a la que se achacaban las distintas prácticas sanadoras retrotraía al médico europeo a un periodo que reconocía en occidente como 'ya superado' y perteneciente a la historia de la medicina, estudiada y utilizada en las escuelas y facultades de medicina hasta fechas recientes precisamente para glorificar el método científico moderno.