Snake Oil Radio/Western Medicine or a Holistic Approach?

Host Jim Ventura (professional Navigational consultant - Astrology, Numerology, Runes, Tarot, Animal cards etc...) is the author of two metaphysical books, YouTube videos, and frequent appearances of the ABC show The ListTV. He works with clients with many different types of sessions with one-on-one readings and classes and also does local in-office and phone and FaceTime seminars and classes on a wise range of metaphysical subjects. Snake Oil is Jim's blog column. Snake Oil radio is a grounded and spiritual forum of metaphysical subjects with a primary focus on how everyone can learn to fine tune their unique intuitive abilities and skills. Todays show will be a live new column read and discussion. I will not be taking live calls during todays show.

While flipping the hundreds of channels available from cable television, I ran across an old episode of Little House on the Prairie. The two early teenage daughters, Mary and Laura plot a way to make extra money to buy their local Reverend a new Bible. They purchase mini vials of “remedies” for things like arthritis, headache, obesity, etc...Basically about twenty five of the most common ailments people could possibly be suffering from at that time and plan to up-sell them to people in the town. The cures turn out to be mostly alcohol based and standard snake oil formulas and the young entrepreneurs fail in their endeavor. The episode is chock full of moral and family lessons, and both positive and negative religious themes. It was a well written episode.
What struck me most was how small the list of medicine cures were that were even available at the time, in comparison to todays world where hundreds if not thousands of potential ailments and treatments exist. There just seems to be way more ailments to suffer from at this time. So back then did the current large list of illnesses and afflictions not exist at all or were they not yet discovered?...