How Medicine Worked Before The Rockefeller Took Over Old medicine treated the body, Modern medicine treats the disease and bills the insurance! 1)Medicine was plural, not centralized Before the early 1900s, there was no single�“approved” medical system.�People used: • Herbal medicine�• Homeopathy�• Naturopathy�• Midwifery�• Traditional healers�• Early surgery and pharmaceuticals Doctors were trained in many different schools of thought, and patients chose what worked for them.�There was no monop