Everything You Know is Wrong

Via Arts & Letters Daily: Anthony Daniels on a book published in 1910 by one Berkeley Moynihan, "one of the great surgeons of his day":

Reading Moynihan in the light of present knowledge, one has the same bittersweet sensation that one experiences on moving among the ruins of a wonderful but dead civilization: all that human effort set at naught, just as one’s own efforts (and passions) will soon be set at naught.

... everything that Moynihan thought he knew, earned at the cost of tremendous effort, was of trifling significance compared with what an idle medical student of today knows.

Don't believe the title I put up there--that's wrong, too.