when did medicine develop in ancient civilzation?
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That's a pretty broad question, since there were so many different ancient civilizations. And so many different ideas about what constitutes medicine. \n\nSince the ancients hadn't invented the scientific method, a lot of what they did to treat illness wasn't very effective. Even the Greeks, who produced Hippocrates (the author of the oath that physicians still take), didn't have a clue as to what really caused illness - remember, no one even SAW a microbe until a few hundred years ago; and no one knew they caused disease until the 19th century.\n\nBut of course some kind of medical theory & practice goes back before recorded history. People assisted in delivering babies, splinted broken bones, made and used poultices out of all kinds of things, boiled and drank herbs (effectively or not). Presumably, they learned to control bleeding by staunching wounds, & maybe even applying tourniquets.\n\nOn the other hand, one can find out a lot about typical or at least possible ancient medical practices just by reading medical literature written before the middle of the 19th century. The way Western doctors treated disease in the 1700s wasn't very different, or more effective, than the kind of things they'd always been doing.\n\nIn terms of medicine, ancient civilization wasn't very long ago.
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How did early mankind servive to perpetuate the human race to what it is today? There were no such things as pharmacies in those days. Besides, I know of many people, who are up in age, and they NEVER had anything seriously wrong with them in their entire life.
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The death rate for each of these conditions was astronomical compared to modern medicine.  \n\nCholera is a diarrheal illness, and the danger to life is dehydration, so attempts were made to get them to drink water.\n\nQuinsy is a peritonsilar abscess, and the danger is impediment to the airway.  Various liquids and snake oils were tried, but time and the body's own immune system were the only reliable cures.\n\nMalnutrition was not understood in the same way that it is today, and there were various snake oils that purported to "cure" the ailments associated with malnutrition, or with the vitamin deficiencies associated with it.\n\nIn short, nothing that would be considered mainstream today.\nBTW, none of the diseases you have inquired about even come close to a description or symptoms of bubonic plague.
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We need to emmulate ourselves about 150-200 years ago.
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the oldest medicine is ayruvedha, not siddha. it is practiced by ancient indian saints. it is still praciced in india .
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The history of the origin of this synbol dates as far back as ancient Eqypt.\n\nCheck out this website!\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_prescription
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Early form of civil government.
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Ancient Greece.  At least, those are the earliest ones we have records of.
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today or in ancient times?  in any case: with a military
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Humanity, pre-history.
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Andreas Vesalius, "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" [On the Structure of the Human Body] first published in 1543
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History books don't go back that far!\nThe disease evolved alongside humans.
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Oldest Civilisation\nRich Heritage
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Solar system, including the Sun and the Earth: 4.6 Ga (billion years)\nGenus Homo is generally considered to be the human race: 1.5 to 2.5 Ma (million years)\nThe term "Civilization" is not precise.\nTools were first used around 3 Ma, but note that todays apes and even dolphins and crows use tools.\nLanguage arose sometime between 2 Ma and 40 ka\nAgriculture developed around 8500 BCE\nFirst cities were around 5000 BCE\nWriting developed by 3000 BCE
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Asia.\n\nThe first 'civilization' as most people defined it existed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day Iraq
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Around 600,000 years old. Maybe even older.