Body: "History of medicine" is how societies have changed in their approach to illness and disease from ancient times to the present.
Medicinal History, Medicine in different cultures, Approaches to illness and disease are a few themes of "History of medicine".
Hippocrates, Galen are a few specialists of "History of medicine".
Some reasons we look at "History of medicine" include To learn about how people approached medicine and illnesses in the past, and how we've grown to treat illness and disease with western medicine.