Figure 1 Hydrotherapy for an arthritis patient, who is being fed water through a hose in the belief that the water would push the poisons from his system, 1846. Figure 2 Ben Bernanke implementing “quantitative easing” by the Federal Reserve. An article about bygone medical methods said “the annals of medical history are filled with some bizarre treatments. They range from the infamous, like leeches and bloodletting, to the obscure.” If we use history to assess our world, our