Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1930, Page 100

14 The Earliest Man Learned Medicinal Value of Herbs and Roots From Animals and Later Tried Simple Operations, According to Evi- dence of Skeletal Remains Found in Many Parts of the World. BY NELL RAY CLARKE. Anythi een that mould w-" a:’ e:c'elleut herb":::‘ w of old. : —KIPLING. ISEASE is thousands of years elder than man. Dinosaurs suffered from bone tumors long before Adam partook of the apple and learned the sorrows of the world. The little or ulceration of the bone, and the dinotherium’s mouth was sore from i s fil[fi i from the Como Beds of Wyoming, two caudal vertebrae of which show a pathological lesion P THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ‘C, OCTOBER 19, 1930 Trephining operations were frequently performed among the Incas, who weed a quid of coco leaves to ease the patient’s pain. SELERE B ’§z§§§:;§a e How Prehistoric Man Cured His Ills Primitive -nrgnd . imatruments recov- ered from the ruins of Pompeii. the result that the early history of medicine s entangled with magic practices which were de- signed to bring about well-being. Therefore, re= some kind or other gaused all disease and death, B is impossible, therefore, to separate tieir medical practices from their religious rites. - Pflmltlvem‘lmmm tive man developed himself, possibly as the re- sult of accident. It may be that as some cave man, or woman, raced through the forest &