When did human beings start using medicine?

Answer 1

The earliest forms of medicine date to prehistoric days, and various forms existed in civilizations such as China and Egypt. Improved understanding of anatomy, chemistry, and genetics have produced new treatments and drugs for many ailments and conditions since then. There are still breakthroughs to be made and solutions to deadly diseases to be discovered.

The earliest medical treatments would have been herbal, many of which are still found effective today, and rituals, which were usually less effective but were based on belief in the cure.

Answer 2

All human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for birth, death, and disease. Throughout history, illness has been attributed to witchcraft, demons, adverse astral influence, or the will of the gods. These ideas still retain some power, with faith healing and shrines still used in some places, although the rise of scientific medicine over the past millennium has altered or replaced mysticism in most cases.

ancient Egypt developed a large, varied and fruitful medical tradition. Herodotus described the Egyptians as "the healthiest of all men, next to the Libyans",[1] due to the dry climate and the notable public health system that they possessed. According to him, "[t]he practice of medicine is so specialized among them that each physician is a healer of one disease and no more." Although Egyptian medicine, to a good extent, dealt with the supernatural,[2] it eventually developed a practical use in the fields of anatomy, public health, and clinical diagnostics.

Medical information in the Edwin Smith Papyrus[3] may date to a time as early as 3000 BC.[4] The earliest known surgery in Egypt was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC. Imhotep in the 3rd dynasty is sometimes credited with being the founder of ancient Egyptian medicine and with being the original author of the Edwin Smith Papyrus, detailing cures, ailments andanatomical observations. The Edwin Smith Papyrus is regarded as a copy of several earlier works and was written circa 1600 BC. It is an ancient textbook on surgery almost completely devoid of magical thinking and describes in exquisite detail the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous ailments.[5]

Conversely, the Ebers papyrus[6] (c. 1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and other superstition. The Ebers papyrus also provides our earliest possible documentation of ancient awareness of tumors, but ancient medical terminology being badly understood, cases Ebers 546 and 547[vague] for instance may refer to simple swellings.

Answer 3

to stop people getting ill and they tested them but sometimes they didn't help them but they kept trying and it finally cured someone and worked :) x