Herbal medicine as the first scientific tradition in medical practice. The earliest surgery in the history of mankind. Hippocrates - the father of medicine. Vesalius and the science of anatomy. A new technique to analyze the internal state of the patient.
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VSMY Foreign language department Referat History of medicine Vitebsk 2013 Pre-Greek Prehistoric medicine In the long process of discovering which plants are edible, humans in the Stone Age also identify many which seem to cure ailments or soothe a fever. Herbal medicine is the earliest scientific tradition in medical practice, and it remains an important part of medicine to this day - in a line descending directly from those distant beginnings. The early physicians stumbled upon herbal substances of real power, without understanding the manner of their working. The snakeroot plant has traditionally been a tonic in the east to calm patients; it is now used in orthodox medical practice to reduce blood pressure. Doctors in ancient India gave an extract of foxglove to patients with legs swollen by dropsy, an excess of fluid resulting from a weak heart; digitalis, a constituent of foxglove, is now a standard stimulant for the heart. Curare, smeared on the tip of arrows in the Amazonian jungle to paralyze the prey,