The evolution of medicine from sorcery to gene therapy


Shamans, sorcerers or witch doctors were the medical practitioners of their day as disease and death were considered to be of supernatural origin. — TNS

In ancient times, humans did not at first regard death and disease as natural phenomena; they were regarded as supernatural in origin.

They might be the result of a spell cast upon the victim by some enemy or the work of an offended god.

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