Prescientific

For example, traditional medicine existed for thousands of years before medical science did, and thus many aspects of it can be described as prescientific.

I claim no therapy to assist the transformation of a proto-science to a science, nor do I suppose anything of this sort is to be had". citation The term prescientific means at root "relating to an era before science existed".

In the order of chronological appearance, these are: *Self-Action: Prescientific concepts regarded humans, animals, and things as possessing powers of their own which initiated or caused their actions.