Almost all legends and myths that most peoples have about the origins of medicine conclude that diseases are the result of the gods' wrath, and that the healing arts are a direct gift of grace from them. It is likely that medicine, of which pharmacy is a part and which was not separated from it in ancient times, is not much younger than the diseases themselves. Since modern medicine has mainly evolved from that of the ancient Greeks, it is not uninteresting to draw from these legends how, according to Greek belief, humanity came to suffer from ailments, disabilities, and diseases. This book about the pharmaceutical prehistory in images and words is an unaltered reprint of the original edition from 1891, illustrated with numerous historical images. The present first of two parts introduces.