Physicians of the past

This contemporary period offers a variety of technological development designed for almost each facet of our lives, like in the case of medicine and our health. Even though there are instances most people find it unnecessary to be knowledgeable in the aspects of human life matters, it is however important to know the beginnings of it life. Both for knowledge and better appreciation of such innovation.

Medicine is like other things whose beginning we are not aware of, with the exception of medically-aware individuals. Ailments has always been one of the major concerns for all living beings. As early as prehistoric times and in the ancient civilizations, maladies have already dawned on all life forms so primeval were instigated to look for medications.

Prehistoric Medicine included plant lives in healing illnesses, which we now acknowledge as herbalism. In that time period’s medicine people like priests and shamans also used minerals and animal parts in performing rituals intended to heal the sick. These people are much like the doctors of today.

In Ancient Egypt, the practice of medicine was known to be very advanced for the period. Eventhough ‘magic’ was the initial element of medicine, the ancient Egyptian physicians discovered medical knowledge became responsible for its great reputation of the civilization. Various information regarding human anatomy was identified by the Egyptians such as in their traditional mummification method. Egyptian medical doctors were also aware of our pulse and the linking it has with our heart. The hypothesis on channels was worked out that transported oxygen, water and our blood around our body by associating the Nile River to the body. Sicknesses were believed to have been caused by these channels becoming blocked and were medicated with laxatives. The earliest recorded physicians in the world is Hesy-Ra who practiced in ancient Egypt; and the lady Peseshet, could be history’s first lady doctor.

Ancient Babylonia probably is the the originals of mathematics, but this ancient culture also gave birth to some common methods of healing. There were two kinds of people who dealt with the medicine in Ancient Babylonia, the ‘asu’ (doctor) and ‘dsipu’ (exorcist). When a patient was sick, the asu would administer cream, pills and bandages; but if healing has not progressed, exorcism was then executed to rid the body of any curse. If the patient is seriously ailed, even in the most delicate areas such as the eye, surgery is carried out. It was indeed excellent of the knowledge held by the Babylonians, they were ardent to the workings of the human and animal body and discovered about blood pulse and circulation.

A document, written 3000 years ago on Ancient Chinese Medicine documenting that the retaining health and nourishing life should be given previous to a person’s illness. This is the reason explaining the ancient Chinese way of healing that is concentrated not on the sick but rather those that are well. The process of diagnosis was established on an ‘Outside-to-Inside’ method where the internal conditions are presumed from observing outside facts. The equilibrium of yin and yang, alleged by the ancient Chinese healing, creates the wholeness and accordance inside us. Therefore the imbalance of the polar opposite that causes illnesses.

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