Wherever the cradle of mankind stood, there too stood the cradle of pharmacy and medicine. Undoubtedly, the mother instinctively practiced the art of healing and medicine as the very first. She explored the pain-relieving properties of certain herbs and the cooling effects of water, gently tending to the wounds her husband had sustained in battle for her sake, and maternal love taught her to heal her child's ailments. The woman, the priestess of the household, soon passed her role as healer and medic onto other women, and then to men who, due to their outstanding qualities, became leaders and priests among their people. From within, the peoples drew religious beliefs and shaped them under the impressions that the surrounding nature exerted upon them. They were of a cheerful nature under the eternally blue sky, beneath the bright day and the...