MEDICINE IN ANCIENT TIMES

Many diseases, infections and injuries that are easily treated today could have been tantamount to a death sentence in ancient times. In the days before life-changing advances like antibiotics and X-rays, vaccines and anaesthetics, one could be forgiven in thinking that ancient peoples did not make their own steps forward in medicine; yet great minds in ancient civilisations still strived to learn all they could about the human body – including how to look after and cure it.

One of the most important theories in ancient medicine