Principles Medical Teachings and Assistance in the Middle Ages History of the Medical School of Salerno

Abstract

Man, by chance, discovered that a tree leaf, placed on the body “in a poor state”, to heal a disease, performed its task, so herbs and plants were the first medicines of man as well as products animals and minerals. Primitive medicine was born with the creation of the world handed down with drawings in numerous caves and caverns from all peoples, from Asia to Africa to the Americas, with paleopathology it was able to trace the diseases from human fossil remains.