This period in the history of medicine is characterized by a mass of discoveries in the field of anatomy, pathological anatomy, and physiology.
Renaissance medicine
The outstanding European (Swiss-born) physician who lived at the junction of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, an era of dissipating darkness that prefigured the Renaissance that followed
History of ancient medicine
The first surviving medical sources are the papyri of ancient Egypt. At this time, medicine was already taught in special schools, although it was not separated from the higher powers