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The Silent Hero Growing Through the Ages

The nations of the ancient world made major medical advancements which contributed to the medical understanding that the world has today. In early antiquity, medicine was not a top priority. There was very little advancement or practice of it at all. However, as time went on, societies flourished and medicine became a common practice. The developments of early medicine were extremely vital to advancing the nation. Early medicine contributed greatly to modern medicine. There were many noble scientists who laid the foundations on which modern medicine was built. It all started in ancient Greece with a man named Hippocrates. Hippocrates was a very wise and noble physician living during the Classical Greek time period. Born in 460 BCE, he made major advancements in medicine during …show more content…

Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna, was a devout Muslim born in 980 A.D. in Afshaneh. Ibn Sina was a very intelligent young man who focused on not only medicine, but physics, philosophy, and spiritual matters too. Ibn Sina made so many advancements in the medical field that he wrote a book called “The Canon Of Medicine.” “The Canon of Medicine” is a collection of five books about the principles of medicine. Ibn Sina was well known for exploring the spreading of diseases. Ibn Sina narrowed it down to four main causes; material, efficient, formal, and final. “The material cause-namely, the human subject in a state of health or disease. The immediate subject is: the membranes and the breath. The more remote is: the humors.” Ibn Sina discovered the process by which disease spread. This was a major advancement because it not only gave a deeper understanding to diseases but it also allowed for prevention methods. While Ibn Sina understood the spread of diseases, he had no knowledge of germs. This advancement made by Ibn Sina was very helpful in disease

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