A History of Occidental (Western) Medicine
The presence of an established tariff for the practice of medicine and surgery in the Code of Hammurabi (the sixth king of Babylon), 1800 BCE (Before Christian Era), suggests that the profession had begun to establish itself well before then, perhaps dating to the Sumerian civilization (between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers) of 4000 BCE. Understanding the cause of disease and the operation of remedies in ancient Babylon (modern day Iraq) was deeply intertwined with primitiv
