Ancient medicine covers medicine through Prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek and Roman times. Religion and belief in the supernatural were key factors in the development of ancient medicine. They influenced the way that people thought and the way in which they lived their lives. The supernatural could be used to explain aspects of medicine that people didn't understand at that time. Not everything was blamed on the supernatural, people did have some natural ideas about medicine and …
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…supernatural. However this certainly does not mean that medicine was based entirely on the supernatural. There were many physicians whose treatments were based around natural medical ideas but they were often restricted in their exploration of the medical world by the religious framework in which they had to work. Then of course some cures worked because they were based on medical fact but at the time people believed it they was down to the supernatural.