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Figure 01 shows him treating the wound of a Greek soldier) rebelled. He was the first to propose theory to explain the causes and cures of disease (in the Hippocratic Collection). The Hippocratic oath sets ethical standards for physicians. The Roman Empire became the dominant power of Eurasia in the 2nd century BCE, it initiated many medical practices to ensure that its army is fit to fight. Galen was a Greek doctor in Rome at this period of time, he stressed the importance of human anatomy in curing diseases. His mistake was to dissect the bodies of apes instead of human's. Medical progress became stagnant during Dark Age (500 - 1000 AD) after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Renaissance saw the correct human anatomy, the discovery of blood pumping heart, and the improvement in surgery. During the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th Centuries there were many medical discoveries including the identification of the source for cholera (infected water), smallpox vaccination, the germ theory (illness caused by germs), and the use of anaesthetics and blood transusion in surgery. Synthetic drug started as distillation of isolates from plants in 16th Century. By the 20th Century, chemists learned to synthesize active plant components and modern |
Figure 01 Father of Western Medicine |
laboratories are able to produce standardized and readily available drugs. Now people are accustomed to take a pill for everything and most doctors and their patients addressed individual symptoms instead of causes. |
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Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. It is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers. It refers to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care (each becomes more intensive following this ordering), as well as in public health. But efforts by yourself alone |
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Figure 03 Daily Physical Activities to Stay Healthy [view large image] |
exert a major influence on your own well-being as shown in Figures 02 and 03 in terms of sensible life style and daily exercise. |
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In June 2015, the Nature magazine commences a new on-line publication with review articles on all kinds of disease or disorder (across all medical specialties). For an up-to-date information in medical science, see "Nature Reviews Disease Primers". |