How did medicine originate? Detailed answer

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How did medicine originate?

We need medicine to treat people from all sorts of diseases. You know that there are many ways to heal people. If you or your parents suddenly fall ill, you will call a doctor who will apply all his knowledge and experience to cure you with the help of science. But instead, you may use the remedy that your grandmother gave you, or try to cure a person with a spell, that is, apply the knowledge of traditional medicine.

Until medicine became a science, people used traditional medicine. Primitive people came up with a variety of, sometimes very strange causes of diseases, and therefore treated them based on magic and other means that seemed to be beneficial. They used heat and cold, bloodletting, massage, and medicinal herbs.

The medicine of Ancient Egypt, which was considered the most effective in antiquity, was based on spells. People used various ointments and drugs: honey, salt, cedar oil, brain, liver, heart and blood of various animals were often used as medicines. Sometimes these remedies helped, sometimes they didn't.

But scientific medicine originated only in Ancient Greece. More than 2000 years ago, a man named Hippocrates collected medical knowledge in one book, The Hippocratic Collections. It marked the beginning of scientific medicine, as it was based on the need to study the patient before making a diagnosis.

His book described the symptoms and course of diseases. For the first time, instead of relying on magic, treatment was carried out after examining the patient and studying the disease, as well as on the basis of the experience of predecessors. Modern medicine is based on the same principles.

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What killed the Grand Duke of Kyiv Igor?

In the autumn of 945, the Grand Duke of Kyiv, Igor, went to the Drevlyane land for tribute. Returning to Kyiv, Igor decided that not enough tribute had been collected. Having released the bulk of the troops to Kyiv, he returned with a small retinue to the Drevlyansk city of Iskorosten to demand additional tribute. The Drevlyan ambassadors who met him on the way tried to convince the prince that the tribute had been paid in full, but Igor was inexorable. Then the desperate Drevlyans, realizing that "it is necessary to kill the predatory wolf, or the whole herd will be his victim," they killed the squad, and the prince was torn to pieces on two trees.

So Igor was ruined by reckless greed.

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