BBC Hospitals and Training Short pieces on Asclepius, Galen, public doctors and Roman military hospitals. Also see Anatomy and Surgery , Public Health , and Alternatives to Medicine . Through Time Exploring medicine in prehistory, Egypt, Greece, China, and India, this BBC site takes a chronological look at ancient practices and beliefs about disease. Dying to have a Baby From an article on the history of obstetrics, this section touches on the history of caesarian section, puerperal fever, and anesthetics. Medicine in Mesopotamia Fire preserved Ancient Assyrian clay medical tablets.
Prescribed treatments are rational even if a deity was responsible for ailment.
Physicians and sorcerers worked together. Modern Diagnosis of Ancient Disease From British Archaeology , scientists can now use mitochondrial evidence from skeletons to trace the history of diseases like tuberculosis, rheumatoid and osteo-arthritis. Biomolecules also reveal information on the Ancient Egyptian disease, schistosomiasis. 2200BC-399AD Chronology of epidemics and climate changes with their effects on human populations. Every work here is unique, traditional and ethnic.