This title shows how the foundations of modern medicine were laid by ancient civilization. It answers many of children"s questions about medicine in the past. Who were the doctors and how were they trained? How accurate were the Egyptians" ideas about anatomy? What strange (to us) ingredients did they put in their potions? How much did the Greeks and Romans understand about hygiene and santitation? What were the attitudes of people in the past to disease, and how did they respond to it? How much of early medicine was really magic or superstition? How much was effective? How long could people in the past expect to live, and how did they deal with death? How much can we find out about the diseases and injuries of people in the past from modern scientific techniques such as CT-scanning and X-rays?