The oldest evidence of the human disease has been found in bones, due to the fact that bones are the only remnants of our ancestors . The Egyptian mummies show lesions typical to osteoarthritis (chronic rheumatism or Degenerative Arthritis). There are also in those mummies trace of other diseases such as gout in the joints, stones of the urinary tract, and signs of bone infections. All those discoveries help scientists to understand that the former Egyptians suffered from a large variety of diseases basically infections and chronic rheumatism.
Further evidence of disease and healing which we can use is an old portrait of a shaman-healer found on the walls of the cavern of "Trois-Frères" in the Pyrenees (a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain). On this portrait, researchers can see a painting representing a man dressed by an animal skin. His arms and legs are covered with stripes; he carried, attached to his head, a deer horn. The artist, lived in Aurignac, has given us a portrait of a shaman-healer of his time wearing a costume of his time. Therefore, the fresco of the Trois-Frères provides us with an excellent starting point.
From these brief pre-historical references, let’s take a look at the historical period and study the medicine of early ages. Opinions is not enough to set the time or place of the origin of disease. However, the following types of medicine in the medical history of mankind can help us Biblical story tells us that in the beginning man lived in peace without any harm. However, today, there are more diseases that a regular medical dictionary can contain. So, what is the origin of disease? If it is almost impossible to clearly answer this question, we can resort to the history of medicine to have an idea.
Moving to Nowdays , The World Health Organization estimates that each year 300-500 million cases of malaria occur and more than 1 million people die of malaria.Similary, . Almost 5500 people die every day due to AIDS in which about half of all new adult HIV infections occur among 15-24 year olds.Approximately 7.6 million people die from cancer each year. In addition to this,rising influenzas are killing millions of people.Human diseases emerged from a long long way far and seems growing violent with the passage of time.