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The early man sought to alleviate his sufferings of illness & injuries by
using plants.
The Medicine Men monopolized the knowledge of drugs and hide that
knowledge in some mysterious incantations. They transferred this secret
knowledge only to their trusted predecessors of the successive generations, who
gradually increased the volume of knowledge about drugs and their uses.
Ebers Papurus, written in 1550 BC, recorded that Egyptians possessed a good
knowledge of human anatomy & medicinal uses of hundreds of plants which
made them capable of embalming dead bodies for making mummies.
of medicine which used medicinal plants and minerals. Arab Muslims further
enriched this system and developed the Greco-Arabic or Unani system, which
formed the basis of modern Allopathic system of medicine.
Thus at this point pharmacy & medicine started developing along two separate
paths:
In this way, Pharmacognosy progressed gradually and formed the basis and
beginning of both pharmacy & medicine.