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Mesopotamia
- The Treatise of Medical Diagnosis and prognosis has about 3,000 entries on 40 tablets with a list of ailments, some of which are identifiable today.
- Framework for diagnosis: They believed in omen based diagnosis. They'd take some sacrificial animal, kill it, take it's liver (the seat of life according to them) throw it in the air, ( Read more... )
- The Treatise of Medical Diagnosis and prognosis has about 3,000 entries on 40 tablets with a list of ailments, some of which are identifiable today.
- Framework for diagnosis: They believed in omen based diagnosis. They'd take some sacrificial animal, kill it, take it's liver (the seat of life according to them) throw it in the air, ( Read more... )
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Having training in diagnostics (as slanted for their knowledge base, obviously) and so could have an intuition based on subconscious data, cultural prejudices (those brick layers always get throat demons!), and the like which the twists of the liver gave them something to read into/an excuse to say what they already felt
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