Les Médecins (Paracelse, Vésale, Paré, etc.) (E08)

A headache happens every once in a while – and is treated easily with a pill. In former times though, as we’re told by Maestro, it wasn’t all that simple. The head of the patient would be opened up, because it was thought that there were small animals living in the head that caused all the pain. Already, we’re witnessing the development of medicine. Starting with the Chinese, we come across Babylonia, Egypt and ancient Greece. It was Hippocrates who first investigated disease and its healing in an intense and scientific way… (iTunes)