Week 12

Compare and contrast essay

Hi everyone!!

Now I will show you another writing technique and another way to do an essay using point by point.

   

Chart ▶ Point by point

General topic ▶Traditional or modern medicine

Most specific ▶Evolution of medicine over time

	Traditional medicine	Modern medicine
Role in history	Provide care free of chemical compounds	Heal few times, soothe often, always comfort
Features	Use of herbs or treatments obtained from nature	Origin of bacterial transmissions
Practice	Shamans, priests, magicians	Doctors
Diagnosis	Intuition	Exams

Introduction

Point 1 ▶ Role in history

• Treat and cure patients with different medical problems and provide compound-free care.

• The role of medicine up to that time was to: cure few times, relieve often, always comfort.

Point 2 ▶ Features

• Apply mainly to the use of herbs or treatments obtained from nature.

• Leeuwenhoek's advances with the microscope and Robert Koch with the origin of bacterial transmissions.

Point 3 ▶ Practice

• Shamans, priests, magicians

• Doctors

Point 4 ▶ Diagnosis

• Traditional medicine uses intuition and religious practices.

• It is based on scientific evidence such as the collection of exams.

Conclusion

Evolution of Medicine over time

Throughout life, human beings have always sought a way to explain reality and the different events that take place in our life, mostly everything related to the origin and development of diseases. Traditional and modern medicine have different components and views about people's health care.

Regarding traditional medicine, we can mention that throughout the millennia, remedies derived from plants or animals have been used throughout the world to treat and cure patients with different medical problems and provide them with care free of chemical compounds such as medicines. manufactured in different laboratories around the world which are made up of different components that can alter people's health if proper supervision is not provided when supplying them to people. At the end of the 19th century, the French doctors Auguste Bérard and Adolphe Marie Gubler established that the role of medicine up to that time was to: cure few times, relieve often, always comfort. With these words it could be summarized that many times the treatments used had repercussions on the health of the patients.

The first human civilizations and cultures based their medical practice on two apparently opposite pillars: a primitive and pragmatic empiricism which is applied fundamentally to the use of herbs or treatments obtained from nature and a magical-religious medicine, which resorted to the gods. to try to understand the inexplicable. Later, starting in the 19th century, modern medicine undergone great changes that helped the care of people, among the great discoveries we have the advances of Leeuwenhoek with the microscope and Robert Koch with the origin of bacterial transmissions, starting modern medicine that currently has evolved achieving greater acceptance in most countries of the world.

When talking about the development of this branch, medicine had its beginnings in ancient times where plants, minerals and parts of animals were used to treat different pathologies or problems associated with people's health, mostly these practices were carried out by shamans, priests, magicians , sorcerers, spiritists or fortune-tellers who believed they had the solution to all problems by currently associating themselves with traditional medicine. On the other hand, modern medicine is practiced by specialized doctors who establish all the scientific processes to give a clearer point of view of people's health and disease.

In order to establish a diagnosis in the case of traditional medicine, intuition and religious practices are used that many times can trigger repercussions on the health of people that can lead to death, whereas modern medicine is based on scientific evidence such as the collection of exams and special tests that establish a more accurate diagnosis to provide better care to people.

In countries like Africa and Asia, a large percentage of the population uses traditional remedies and not modern medicine for primary health care, in developed nations, traditional medicine is attracting more and more adherents due to unconventional treatments that are used many times.