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Quick History of Medicine

Medicine deals with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases. Medicine has progressed over the years from ancient times to modern day and a variety of specialties have evolved due to the requirement of focus on specific sections of population (gender and age based medicine) or different parts (organs) of the body and the varied effects of their dysfunction on human health. What has kept man going has been the challenges that nature throws at him and his ability to respond to these challenges through his ingenuity (observation, inference and trial and error) culminating into the art and science that is medicine. Given below is a quick timeline of advancement in Medicine as per Infoplease: 460 BCE Birth of Hippocrates, Greek physician and founder of the first university. Considered the father of medicine. Hippocrates bases medicine on objective observation and deductive reasoning, although he does accept the commonly held beli

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