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History of medicine

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When looking at the history of medicine, the use of plants, or herbalism, and animal parts is the earliest form of medicine in most cultures to be found. Developing gradually from ancient Egypt, India, China, Greece and Persia, the practice of medicine began. The type of medicine we currently practice was developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in England, Germany and France. The western tradition of medicine based on herbalism was replaced with the more scientific medicine. This scientific form uses results that are testable and repeatable.

By the early 1900s, Sir William Osler, and Harvey Cushing shifted the focal point to developing clinical medicine. A major change in medical thinking was the rejection of the traditional authority approach to medicine. This idea said that because a prominent person said something was so, then it must be and anything else was an abnormal. The practice formed today is EBM or evidence based medicine. It allows healthcare providers and the policy makers evaluate different treatments for efficiency. EBM isn't limited to medicine. Dentists, nursing and the other allied health sciences are adopting it along with alternative medical approaches such as acupuncture.

Medicine is the oldest form of health science. It refers to the area of knowledge and applied practice of that knowledge. Knowledge is the human health, diseases and treatment that is applied. Medicine is the study of human biology, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries and promoting health. Medicine is considered to be an art and an applied science, where art is the relationship between the doctor and patient. This relationship gathers data, interprets it and provides therapy in clinical medicine. The physicians who hold doctorate degrees have to undergo a period of internships and residency trainings. The history of medicine traces back to herbalism of early cultures.

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