The Mesopotamian schools of Edessa and Jundi-Shapur: The roots of modern medical schools

From: The American Surgeon | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Johna, Samir | Copyright information

Vignettes in Medical History

THE PRACTICE OF medicine arose out of the primal sympathy of humans for other humans: the desire to help those in sorrow, need, and sickness.1 Primitive people learned their early lessons in medicine by dealing with injuries, accidents, and the bites of beasts and serpents. Little by little such experiences crystallized into useful knowledge. By experimenting with nature primitive people recognized the relationship between cause and effect,1 which is an imp...

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