This book will explain what really makes you ill and why everything youthought you knew about disease is wrong. "Doctors are men who prescribemedicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they knowless, in human beings of whom they know nothing." Voltaire. Theconventional approach adopted by most healthcare systems entails the useof ‘medicine’ to treat human disease. The idea encapsulated by theabove quote attributed to Voltaire, the nom de plume of François-MarieArouet (1694-1778), will no doubt be regarded by most people asinapplicable to 21st century healthcare, especially the system known asmodern medicine. The reason that people would consider this idea to nolonger be relevant is likely to be based on the assumption that ‘medicalscience’ has made significant advances since the 18th century and that21st century doctors therefore possess a thorough, if not quitecomplete, knowledge of medicines, diseases and the human body.Unfortunately, however, this would be a mistaken assumption; as thisbook will demonstrate.