Prehistoric medicine

Prehistoric medicine
Buried skeletons provide hints about prehistoric medical treatment. In a procedure called trepanning, early surgeons drilled their patient’s skulls, perhaps thinking this would let diseases escape. Archeologists have found skulls that show partial healing, so not all patients died after the operation.
Medieval medicine
For 1000 years in medieval Europe, doctors trusted religion, astrology, and Galen’s teachings. Even during the renaissance there was wide – spread ignorance about illness and its treatment.
These were few medical schools in medieval faculty at Padua University, Italy, has a steeply tiered anatomy lecture theatre, so that students could see the corpse being dissected.
Modern medicine
In the 20th century, medical knowledge developed move quickly than ever before. The control of infectious diseases meant that children in the developed world born in the late 1990s can now expect to see 25 more birthdays than children born in 1900.
Through a better understanding of how our bodies work, scientists devised new drugs, new ways of detecting illness, and new treatment, which now make nor lives healthier as well as longer.