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Diagnostic Handbook

  • February 20, 2015
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The “Diagnostic Handbook” is an ancient Babylonian medical text from the second millennium BCE. Although healers of that era blamed sicknesses on supernatural causes, the text also shows a grasp of more modern ideas, like using symptoms to diagnose illnesses. (Photo: University of Oxford)

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