The development of disease prevention and treatment from prehistoric times to the present day is the history of medicine. Medicine and surgery before 1800 Early medicine and folklore Unwritten history is hard to understand, and even though early humans' drawings, bone remains, and surgical tools can teach us a lot, it's hard to figure out how they felt about disease and death. It seems likely that once they were able to think for themselves, they used trial and error to figure out which plants could be eaten, which were poisonous, and which had some medicinal value.
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