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is like a huge puzzle, and it has taken many tortuous and gruesome routes to try to fit the pieces together. It has gone from ancient myths that attempted to explain disease to the great capabilities of today's medicine. The first crude forms of medicine go ....

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.... , amputation, and surgery with stone tools. Copying the acts of previous monkeys, the first casts were made of dried mud put directly on wounds. Fire brought not only burns, but cautery . Civilization came to be around 12,000 BC. Diseases were treated if minor with domestic remedies such as diet, herbs, plasters, and massage. Often, if the case was severe, the patient was killed to relieve the community of his burden, or the healer was summoned. Old shaman's techniques were more based on myth and magic. Magic was man's first attempt to understand nature. Defensive magic used fetishes (objects endowed with magical powers), am ....