Gwen Miedema

Gwen Miedema

  • Medicine in History: The Ancient Greeks

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    Medisch

    We can learn a lot about the people of ancient times and their thought processes when we look back at how they used to regard medicine. How practical where they when it came to treatment and how did they think the body worked? In this article we will discuss the Ancient Greeks, who were active from 700 BC until around 600 AD. This spans about 1300 years of history and it was the time of some of the greatest minds in Western history, but some of the things believed to be true were still a little odd.

  • Medicine in history

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    Medisch

    Egypt is said to be the birthplace of the first great civilisation in history. A lot is known about Egypt in ancient time, including a lot of their medical practises, knowledge about disease and the human body.