What s Cool about Science Discover Cutting Edge Medicine Meg Marquardt Lerner Publications Minneapolis
Chapter 1 MEDICINE Medicine is a science dedicated to making people healthy Today's doctors use cutting edge technology to do this Some repair parts of the body Others cure diseases All are helping people live better longer lives II 2O I RPI Today's hospitals are filled with advanced by technology What is one way that doctors keep people
The history of medicine goes back thousands of years Ancient Greeks discovered natural treatments For example they used ginger to treat nausea Ancient doctors wrote huge books full of such treatments One of the most famous was the Arab physician Avicenna who was born around 98O CE His cures were used for hundreds of years Avicenna wrote a medical textbook called The Canon of Medicine It was used by doctors into the
