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Primitive man believed that all natural objects had life, that they were alive and possessed a spirit or a soul. The man used wooden splints for immobilization and restoration of limb fractures.
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They thought that the diseases were caused by demonic spirits. Sumerian pharmacology was mainly made up of purely empirical principles.
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Medicine in ancient Egypt was highly valued since the beginning of civilizations, being superior to that practiced long after, including in medieval Europe.
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It is considered to date back to the Homeric era, although it did not truly develop until the 5th century B.C. with Hippocrates. Greek medicine in Homer's time is prescientific. They refer to the effects and treatments of trauma and the healing of war wounds.
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Roman physicians were trained and influenced by the Greek school. Plutarch was the first doctor in Rome. Sorano of Ephesus, the Greek Gynecologist, one of the most brilliant of antiquity. Claudio Galeno was the one who began to practice medicine in Rome.
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The use of plaster began. It was a link between the wisdom of the classical world and the medicine of the Renaissance. Abulcasis, author treated of medicine in thirty volumes. Avicenna was one of the most prestigious Arab doctors.
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The war caused surgeons to develop and create new techniques for treating patients, in addition to learning with physiology and human anatomy patients.
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The great painters such as Verrocchio, Mantegna, Rafael made anatomical dissections in human corpses and left drawings of their studies.
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They regarded illness as punishment for supernatural powers; the doctor was superior to the rest of the members of the tribe. Healers were those in charge of prevention and healing within a magical religious context.
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A hospital was built next to each church to shelter the young sick. It was practiced by Spaniards who had been instructed in medicine like those who had not been instructed in it.
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They have eradicated some diseases, it has been possible to establish the treatment of others that were previously considered incurable, it has been possible to maintain health and control chronic diseases, as well as improve the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of human beings.
