Did you miss the part that he'd become a doctor and observed patients for years before he started experimenting on himself to treat the very condition he was already an expert on?
This is like the Galileo complex, where people think their ideas are right because they are rejected by the establishment, forgetting that by the time Galileo started promoting heliocentrism, he'd already been one of the most respected, well established scientists in Europe, and, in fact, his views were accepted by the majority of establishment scientists. It was the non-experts who rejected him.
This is like the Galileo complex, where people think their ideas are right because they are rejected by the establishment, forgetting that by the time Galileo started promoting heliocentrism, he'd already been one of the most respected, well established scientists in Europe, and, in fact, his views were accepted by the majority of establishment scientists. It was the non-experts who rejected him.