Recommendable! A brief history of medicine (with particular focus on Johns Hopkins University)!
Caution: This article seems to be favoring socialized/government run medicine!
"... Medicine is as old as mankind itself. Older, actually, as scientists and archaeologists now theorize that Neanderthals practiced some form of the healing arts.
Analysis of DNA traces found in their dental remains show non-food herbs and botanicals, including poplar tree bark, a traditional painkiller chemically similar to aspirin.
Their skeletal remains include individuals who appear to have overcome severe injury, suggesting that caregiving was a component of the social lives of these archaic humans. ...
The Johns Hopkins History of Medicine department is the oldest academic unit of medical history in the English-speaking world and a leader in looking backward over millennia of global medical practice. Founded in 1929 ...
Henry Sigerist ... An early proponent of government-run universal healthcare ..."
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