History of Medicine

Rudiments of medicine emerged in the earliest stages of human existence: "Medical activities - the same age as the first man," - wrote Pavlov. The sources of our knowledge of diseases and their treatment in those times are the results of the excavations of settlements and burials of primitive man, the study of individual ethnic groups who, due to special conditions in its history and now are at a primitive stage of development. Primitive man, entirely in the power of the natural environment, is constantly suffering from a cold, damp, hunger, ill and soon died.