| Show Old Oh Documents Now v Reveal How v Medicine Beg Began n nT lIE of the tho healing art I Is T THIS clo with the hl hIs hIs- tor Wry tory of r Ih the human race but hut of its two divisions sur surgery surgery c nod and medicine thc the ne-the the former ii unquestionably dy was the c earlier and the inure eff effective ff e describe t the first efforts of oe prehistoric man tl ti to repair injuries re received re- re eI d In conflict with wild uca beasts nod anti from the tho remotest t known agos M a O Ot t tribes d tl remedies for fOI wounds and general Jeneral ailments furnishes the earliest evidence of It the exl existence of or medicine n IL book hook written n on un papyrus about B. B C. C treating treating- of or the preparation preparation prepa prepa- ration of drugs er E Every physician in ancient E Egypt helon belonged d to a sacerdotal college c and the sick attended the nearest temple where on tho the payment of fees from which h the medical staff WitS was maintained main main- tamed thc they obtained tho the services of or orthe the physician whose line lino of or study st was wa bc best t suited to their case casc Where the F. F Egyptians the Israelites the thc Indians and Po Persians ian had In varying vary vary- In log ing degrees rees pr practiced healing 1 by y In Internal Internal internal In- In remedies remedies' it 1 IB Is to Greece that we must turn for tor the foundation of or r ra rational m- m medicine Homer in his Iliad tells u us UN of the thel medical practitioners r who visited sick patients for 01 or fees feE's During several centuries cen cen- R before tho the Christian era em medicine medi- medi cine doe was practiced In Greece as aR a ills dEs t science nce the profession belH being open to every free born bOIn citizen Students of those times he began n n their Instruction with the study of or plants and the prep prep- oration of ot ointments draughts antI and plasters the abominable practice of or blood letting which was to last until until un- un til the b beginning of th the nineteenth ceo ceo- tory tun and finally with treatment trel at th the bedside The physician on heln being duly qualified quail quail- fied frd took the plan oath re receive re- re el cc patients In hi his own home or visited them at nt their homes Many Inn cities kept a physician for public ser service erIce er- er Ice vice his position being comparable to that o of the tho health officer of these times Hippocrates wn was the fir first t to give hi the thc profession of medicine something approaching ap- ap preaching character and direction by by denying to disease l ase a supernatural origin From God comes one disease lIsa I as ItS well as another he writes hut but I nothing happen happens save C In conformity with nature From Front Hippocrates s. s too I ITO wo we derive the threefold method of or I diagnosis la followed ed 1 by physicians In all uses ages viz 17 to ascertain t the he past to cx- cx Amine smine the present ent and to forecast the I fu future I IThen I Then the treatment of or the he sick grad grad- ra I j u lJ became involved in a n m maze C of or un uncertainty on- on un I certainty ur and doubt and was rescued from chaos only ony h bv It Galen Galton who beginning beginning begin begin- ning practice In III Rome nome 19 1 A. 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D re reduced re- re uc ll ci dla diagnosis ros to an exact science ITT Lr basing 1 it on anatomy and physiology The process of me medical ical science through h Its successive sa stages ei is best Bumm summarized In 10 a record of t bo names associated with a great reat discoveries isco In the OI origin n and nd of ot specific dis- dis f 4 se p 1 t. and Ba Ea 11 1 nut Into practice r SUlt of or their ther re researches In physiology physiology Harvey discovered o erEd the tho circulation ton tion of or the tho blood Willis set et the 1 standard standard stand- stand ard ud for tor all successors In the tIle treatment of ot nervous ous diseases A Addison dison solved ot I the mystery of ot tie te origin and cure of or tub tubercular and disease I of Levden Leyden greatest of oC au alt all clinical lecturers of or Bologna first and hp best t of or sit all nerve ner specialists t I Tenn Tenner r. r with th the discovery r 0 of vaccination vaccina vaccina- lion tion opened the to endless way avenues aye ave In the treatment of Infectious dis ls- ls rates eases 1 Pringle enlightened th the protes- protes lon on the orl origin in of tf fevers rs Fothergill conquered diphtheria Bright ht In the treatment of th the kI kidneys ne s marked an n epoch in the cure of human matalI Italy tab i Is the mother molher of thera electro and Gt Germany through Schon Schon- lien fen founder of the modern natural History school In medicine has given ln 1 to the worM world bacteriology which In tho the hands hand of or Koch and Pasteur has for tOI cholera tuberculosis and malaria be become become become be- be beI I come one of or th most powerful instruments meats ments fi of or medicine in dil diagnosis nois and practice |
