This ASMR/bedtime story video is about medicine and healing since the Neolithic. I tell you about Ancient Mesopotamia and the first diagnosis and prescriptions, Ancient Egypt and the figure of Imhotep, India and the principles of Ayurveda, or Chinese Medicine including Moxibustion and Acupuncture. We also take a look at medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome, including important figures like Hippocrates and Galen, how this legacy passed on and was further developped in the Islamic World, Byzantium or Medieval Europe. Then we reach the Renaissance and the steps that would lead to an increasingly scientific approach to medicine and the many discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries, that came with important social change and professionalisation (I tell you at the end about scientists like Pasteur or Koch, and Florence Nigthingale, the founder of modern nursing).
Credits: Script and narration by the French Whisperer, visuals by the French Whisperer, under Wikipedia Commons, or under license from Panthermedia and Shutterstock. Sound effects and music from the YouTube Audio Library for Creators.
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Timestamps: 0:00 Relax and Get Ready 1:45 Prehistory and Knowledge Accumulation 8:49 Ancient Mesopotamia 13:45 Ancient Egypt 20:16 India and Ayurveda 27:02 China and Acupuncture 32:30 Greek and Roman Antiquity 40:49 Humorism and Medieval Times 50:48 Birth of Modern Medicine
