Welcome to the medicine blog!
Here you will find a lot of interesting information about the history of medicine and its discoveries.
The word “medicine”, if you translate it from Latin, means “healing”, “curing”, “doctoring”. Medicine in general should be understood as a set of measures aimed at the study of the human body in order to identify various diseases, their treatment and prevention.
It is known that our ancestors already in ancient times had the skills to treat many diseases, or rather, made attempts to look for methods of their elimination. The first stage in the development of medicine is called empirical (or experimental). Research proves that approximately 200,000 years ago, when humans were able to walk upright, they gradually learned how to help each other when they were injured or broken. The level of help, considering the ancient times, was very high.
Of course, the skills of primitive healers should be taken critically, but with the advent of writing, a special list of Hamurappi rules also appeared, which regulated the rules of Babylonian doctors’ work. Since people at that time did not yet distinguish between medicine and religion, the first doctors can be considered temple priests.
But time does not stand still, and in modern medicine we can now observe such discoveries, which previously could only be read about in science fiction.