Pitsios and Zifiri (2012), archaeologists have uncovered prehistoric human skulls having unevenly shaped holes drilled by early medicine practitioners to let disease-causing demons to exit patients’ bodies. Historical records also reveal that trephination was a practiced form of medicine in Europe, Egypt, India, and Central and South America.
Later, during the fifth and sixth centuries B.C.E., the foundation for Western medicine was founded by Hippocrates, when Greeks and Romans began to advance…
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