Provide and analyze an example from Chapter 1 of a success and an example of an ongoing problem in the history of disease that, together, illustrate how the history of disease can be seen from these two completely different viewpoints.

Write a 400- to 500-word essay in response to the following:
“The war between disease and doctors fought out on the battleground of the flesh has a beginning and a middle but no end. The history of medicine, in other words, is far from a simple tale of triumphant progress.” This quote from p. 1 of Blood and Guts encapsulates the main point of the first chapter. Provide and analyze an example from Chapter 1 of a success and an example of an ongoing problem in the history of disease that, together, illustrate how the history of disease can be seen from these two completely different viewpoints.