Medicine questions: When/ how was medicine developed? Who developed medicine?

Question

What has medicine replaced?

If you can only answer one of these questions, it doesn't matter, just give me what you got!!! =]

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Answer 1

That's a ridiculous question, medicine is a huge range of things and wasn't developed by a single person or entity at once

Answer 2

Ok i've search the web so hope this helps even if just some of it answers your questions.

WHEN, HOW WAS MEDICINE DEVELOPED?

Medicines first appeared in England in the 1600s. When a medication was patented, its formula was owned by the patent holder, and no one else could duplicate and sell it. In order to qualify for a patent, a medicine only had to be original; no proof of effectiveness or safety was required. Because the ingredients of patented remedies had to be listed, many sellers of proprietary medications never applied for patents. Instead, they registered distinctive trade names in order to market their nostrum--ingredients unspecified--under a unique brand name. In time, all of these medicines being promoted for public sale became known as "patent" medicines, whether they were in fact patented or not.

HOW?

* Razi (10th century) used mercurial compounds as topical antiseptics. From the 10th century, Muslim physicians and surgeons were applying purified alcohol to wounds as an antiseptic agent. Surgeons in Islamic Spain utilized special methods for maintaining antisepsis prior to and during surgery.

WHO DEVELOPED MEDICINE?

Well the answer here depends completely on which type of medicine your looking at. Every type of medicine in this world today was first developed / discovered by different people. For an example, The Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928 discovered Penicillin.

WHAT HAS MEDICINE REPLACED?

Well in fact nothing really, just natural treatments. When such people as cave men etc lived these things didn't exist so they treated wounds and illnesses with natural elements like flowers, leaves, and the substances from these etc. As well as some areas practised in witchcraft, voodoo type healing techniques, such as laying of the hands. That's where Aromatherapy comes in. This is a type of medicine but using natural substances like plants etc.

Hope this helps?