By: aaron adish
Submitted: 2010-10-13 20:29:45 | Word Count: 842
History of Drugs
The apply of medicine existed even in the earliest periods of recorded human history. The fifth century BC was the golden age of Greek medication and it had been throughout this period that Asclepid Hippocrates (born around 460 BC), introduced scientific system of administering medication which was till then dominated by non secular and mystic practices.
Hippocrates embodied the best virtues of a physician such as knowledge, readiness to help, purity of life, compassion, talent and patrotism. Hippocratic medicine was based on apply in addition to theory, with very little emphasis on anatomy. The history of Indian medicine dates back to 3000 BC and the excavations of Mohanjadaro and Harappa throw light-weight on medical practices that flourished at that age which consisted mainly of spiritual, magical and empirical procedures.
"Ayurveda" (the science of life) is considered an off-shoot of the Rigverda. It laid emphasis not only on healing, however also on the prolongation of life, preservation of illness. The ancient sages recognized health as the terribly basis of virtues, wealth, enjoyment and salvation. From an early times Ayurveda had developed independent of the non secular precepts. Agnivesa has been credited with authorship of Ayurveda. CHaraka edited this encyclopedic text and created "Charaka Samhita". Susruta, who was a medical teacher of varanasi during the Buddhist amount, practiced surgery.
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Vagbhata, another Buddhist physician living within the Indus region (Second century AD) wrote two classics in "Ayurveda Ashanga Sangraha" and "Ashtanga Hridaya". Vagbbata emphasised the principles of medication, Susruta dealt mainly with surgery and anatomy, whereas Charaka emphasized therapeutics. The Yoga concept of physical and mental culture to preserve the health of the body and also the mind developed in India. Even when the Aryan influx into India brought in Ayurveda, different systems of medicine like Siddha and Chintamoni existed in this sub-continent, particularly within the South from pre-Aryan times. The Buddha (6th Century BC) and his disciples practiced medicine and consequently healing of the sick was given a nice importance.
Arabic and middle eastern countries share the tradition of Arabic folks medicine and therefore the Unani or adopted Greek medicine. It had been primarily taken from Galenic teachings throughout the early Islamic period. Many names stand out prominently among those that developed this technique-Ibn Sina of Andolasia in Spain, Al Mansur of Baghdad, Avicenna, Razi, Rhzes, and others. The rear bone of the theoretical instruction was the Alexandrian canons which summarized a few books compiled by Galen. The foremost works in Unani were "Al qnanum Fi-Tibb" by Ibn Sina, continued by Rhazes, "Kitab-Al-shifa" by Avicenna, "Al-Tarsiff" by AhuQuasim-Az-Zuhra-Wi" and several others. Hospitals were established from the tenth century AD in several towns. Surgery and Ophthalmology was practiced throughout this era and therefore the works of Unani Surgeons paved the means for development of Surgery in Europe. In India, the Muslim rulers popularized Unani system aspect by side with Ayurveda. After its golden age within the twelfth century the system came to a stand-still and declined.
From these past medicine progressively emerged as a scientific discipline, under going periodic changes in its content and approach. The sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries witnessed the growth of the modern physical sciences and its scientific methods of study and analysis. Vesalius, born in 1514 in Brussel, made in depth observations in anatomy and produced his classical work on anatomy "De humanis corporis fabrica" in 1543. William Harvey, a British Physician, printed his classical work on circulation of blood. "De mortu Cordis" in 1628. It had been Harvey who established the scientific basis of medicine.
Beginning in the late 18th century and developing with a nice rapidity within the 1th century, the fashionable medical theory and follow made great progress. Discovery of the microscope by Leewenhock, 3 hundred years ago led to the identification of the cell as the idea of biological existence. Koch's postulates laid a firm basis for establishing the aetiology of microbial diseases. Gregor Mendel printed his observations in 1865 and laid the foundations of recent genetics. Molecular diseases conjointly were identified in the early half of the 19th century.
From the center of this century the development of knowledge has been been explosive. Though earlier medication was practiced as an art, at gift it is a harmonious mix of scientific practices generously tempered with human warmth, kindness, and higher than all, the bare common sense. What is spoken of as a clinical picture is not simply the photograph of a person sick in bed, it's the total total of the patient's condition, his home, his work, his fears etc. A sensible physician honors his patient and his time; sympathy and understanding are found in that joy of personal bond that forms the source of the best satisfaction in the apply of medicine.
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