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Alexander the Great
When Alexender the Great conquered Babylon in 333 BCE, he was awestruck by the city and its progress. Alexander took Babylonian medicine with him. This is where Greek Philosophy and Babylonian laws married. Now the medicine was Logic+Laws+Experiment.
When Alexender the great finally reached his last conquest of India, he failed to conquer India. however, his general Seleucus fought a long war with the then-united Indian emperor Chandragupta Maurya for almost a decade. Finally, they agreed that war was not worth it, and Seleucus married his daughter to Chandragupta Maurya. Chanakya was the teacher of Chandragupta, who is identified as one of the sharpest political minds in history. Chanakya composed Politics and Economics, two books that are to date assets of humanity.
Seleucus’s intellect traveler in the Gupta empire, Megasthenis studied Indian Vedic literature and took Indian knowledge of Vedic science to Athens. Vedic medicine is metaphysical where the emphasis is to purify the soul and body and keep them in balance.
After Alexander the great’s untimely death in 323 BCE, his teacher Aristotle feared that Athens would persecute him the way almost 150 years back they persecuted Socrates, arguably the father of modern philosophy. Aristotle then spent the last five years of his life, away from Athens combining the knowledge of Medicine Alexender had brought from Egypt, India, and Babylon.
Foundation of Ancient Greek Medicine
The Greek Medicine after 318 BCE was Body+Mind, and the balance of them is called homeostasis, which needs to be investigated by understanding the organs(anatomy). The body needs to be seen as a system(like the Babylon theory), and laws of functioning need to be established. Any disease is similar to an antisocial element or criminal breaking the state laws. Such anomalies were called diseases, and if the disease was notorious, then surgery needs to be performed on them, in line with Sushruta+babylonean theory. This was called treatment. After the treatment, the body needs to be healed through nursing in line with the Egyptians.
African Medicine of Antibiotics and Preservatives
Much prior to Aristotle’s work, almost around 3200 BCE in Eastern Africa(now Sudan), the first Pyramids were built. In the Kush empire of ancient Sudan first Antibiotics and preservatives were developed. Egyptian pharaohs adapted the Pyramids of Kushaites and combined them with Mesopotamian Ziggurat(temples), to create Egyptian theology. Due to advancements in material science and metallurgy in Egypt, the standard composition of medicine was created there.