ANCIENT HISTORY OF MEDICINE Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D..

ANCIENT HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D.

Medicine was developed to combat the problems of diseases and wounds

Campbell Thompson

Let us first look at who practiced what healing arts existed in Mesopotamian

medical life. Medicine appears to have been in the hands of 3

types of priests, only 1 of which was concerned

exclusively with sick people.

Herodotus

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