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An Overview of Medicines used in Ancient time’s

Agbonu Zare

In ancient time’s experts in medicine used their specialized knowledge to practice drugs, surgery, and a systematic and complex combination of prayers and spells, suggesting a link between science and religion. In the west, for example in the fifth century, BC medicine lost it’s religious and magical element and become more like what we today would call science. At this time, the Greek Hippocrates and others drawing on Egyptian and near-Eastern medical practices produced classifications of symptoms and objective accounts of ill health. Diseases were believed to have natural causes, resulting from an imbalance between four senses of humor or bodily fluids, perhaps caused by the seasons or the elements. Physics and even ethics are the sciences of the day.