Worldwide medical history

Initially, most of the early cultures in the community using herbal plants and animals for the treatment action. This is in accordance with their belief in the magical animism, magic, and the god-goddess. Animism community believe that the object also has the spirit of the dead or have any relationship with the ancestral spirits.

Medical science gradually evolved in many separate places that ancient Egypt, ancient China, ancient India, ancient Greek, Persian, and other. Around year 1400-an occurs a large change in the approach to the science of medicine. This began to arise with the rejection-as not in accordance with the fact that there are a variety of things-raised by the figures in the past (compare with the rejection of the theory of Copernicus astronomy Ptolomeus. Some new leaders such as Vesalius (an expert anatomy) opened the way for rejecting against the theories of ancient medical theory, such as Galen, Hippokrates, and Avicenna. estimated that this occurs due to the weak strength of the church in the community at that time.

Medicine as practiced in the now developed in the late 18-century and early 19th century in the UK (by William Harvey, 17th century), Germany (Rudolf Virchow) and France (Jean-Martin Charcot, Claude Bernard) . Modern medical science, medical science "scientific" (in which all results have been tried) tradition replaced early Western medicine, herbalisme, humorlasime Greek and all pre-modern theory. Development of medical science center switch to the United Kingdom and the United States in the early 1900s (by William Osler, Harvey Cushing).

Evidence-based medicine (evidence-based medicine) is the action that is now made to provide effective ways of working and using the scientific method and the global information of modern science.

Now, the science of genetics has influenced medical science. This begins with finding genes cause diseases due to genetic difference, and the development of molecular biology techniques.

Science herbalisme developed into farmakologi. Modern period actually begins with the discovery of Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch that the disease spread through bakteria (around 1880), which followed the invention of antibiotics (around 1900s). Antibiotic that was first found is Sulfa drugs, derived from the anilina. Handling of the disease infection was successfully reduce the level of infection in Western society. Therefore, the drug industry immediately.