Evolution of medicine

1. EVOLUTION OF MEDICINE IN
HISTORICAL PROSPECTIVE

2. HISTORY OF MEDICINE

3. CHINESE MEDICINE(2700BC)
● Chinese Medicine Claims the World’s first Organised Body by Medical
Knowledge.
● Based on two principle the Yang and the Yin.
● The Yang believed to active Masculine Principle and the Yin Negative
Feminine Principle.
● Balance of these opposing force meant good health.
● The Chinese were early pioneers of Immunization.
● Traditional Chinese medicine that is based on the use of herbal
medicine,acupuncture,massage,hydrotherapy,dietary therapy.
● The Chinese system of bone foot daltons and acupuncture have attracted
worldwide attention in recent year.

4. EGYPTION MEDICINE(2000BC)
● Egypt had one of the oldest civilization.
● They Invented Picture Writing and reviewed their doing on Papyrus(thick paper).
● In Egyptian times the art of medicine was mingled with religion.
● Physician
● They below diseases was due to absorption of harmful substance from the blood
and formation of pus.
● They below Pulse “ The speech of the Heart”.
● Edwin Smith pampus & Ebers papyrus best known medical mechanism during
egyption times.
● Edwin Smith papyrus >Surgery in Head and Neck.
● Ebers papyrus > Unique record of 800 prescription based on 700 drug.

5. MESOPOTANION MEDICINE(3000-2000BC)
● The basic consent of medicine were recogianes and tangent and
practised by herb doctors,Knife doctors and spell Doctors.
● Cradle of Civilization.
● Oldest medical prescription were written on tablets in Cuneiform
writing.
● Hammurabi is a great king of Babylon who lived around 2000
BC.Formulated a set of drastic laws” Code of Hammurabi that
governed the conduct the physicians and provided for health
practices.

6. GREEK MEDICINE(460-136BC)
● Civilizer of the ancient world.
● They Tenget me to think why & how.
● Aesculapius: Son of Apollo(the greek god of medicine had two
daughters).
● AESCULAPIUS
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● (a).Hygeia(Goddess of health) > preventive medicine
● (b). Panacea(Goddess of medicine) > curative medicine.
● Asclepius rod with serpent entwined has traditionally been symbol of
scientific medicine.

7. Contd:
● Hippocrates :- Greatest physicians in greek medicine.
● Father od Medicine.
● 1st true Epidemiologist.
● Studied & Classified Diseases.
● Based on Observation & Reasoning.
● Application of clinical methods in medicine.
● Hippocratic oath as become the keystone of medical ethics and set
high moral standard for medical profession.
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8. Contd :
● His Book “ Airs,water and places “ in which he described the
effects of environment,diet,& water,habits of eating and
drinking in proceeding diseases.
● Greek belief: health occurs as results of Based on 4 humans :-
● (a). Phlegm -(mucus).
● (b). Yellow Bile -(Gall).
● ©.Black Bile-
● (d). Blood.

9. Contd:
Greek Rejected the super-natural theory of disease &
loocked upon disease as natural princesses.

10. ROMAN MEDICINE(1st Century BC)
● The Roman borrowed their medicine largely Form the
greek.
● More powerful & practitioner mindset than greek.
● Knee sense of sanitation.
● Public health was born with development of public
baths,swears,and aqueducts.
● They brought pure water to all cities and constructed
drainged system to combat malaria.

11. Contd:
● Centre of civilization shifted to Rome.
● Galan(130-205A.D);- Roman physicians.
● - His important contribution in the field of comparative
anatomy and experimental physiology.
● Observed diseases due to three factors:-
● (a). Predisposing,b).exciting,d).Environmental factors.
● His theories contineu to be accepted for 1500 years.