No cure for 500 years?

Sometimes I think we are really in the dark ages of medicine. E.g. reading wikipedia is not very encouraging

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidiasis


Even worse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_candidiasis


"This can result in redness and itching (thrush in women and dhobi itch in men) which can last for a similar period to that of the Antibiotic course. The rash can be controlled or cured by a suitable antifungal drug, but the infection is likely to clear up of its own accord in due course (presumably when the original bacterial/fungal balance has been properly restored).[citation needed]"

We all know this is not true. The infection never gets better by itself once it becomes chronic.

The problem is before you can attempt to sail around the world, you first need to acknowledge the world is in fact round. The problem is medicine is in the dark ages like the days when people believed the world was flat... and then that the sun revolved around the earth. We are in the dark ages of medicine. That is why I think sometimes there will be no cure for 500 years. No reason to address the problem because the severity of the problem is not even widely acknowledged.

I just really hope I'm wrong.