Medicine Medicine is civilizing every day. It helps people stay healthy, strong, and able to live good lives. Medicine helps people who have, for example, Type One Diabetes live and have a good life. It makes people who have blood disorders, which are lethal, live and have normal lives. Modern medicine is not like how it was to be. For instance in the past the Ancient Egyptians used magicians to cure themselves of illnesses, because of them believing in multiple gods will cure them. The Egyptians believed in gods that are able to restore them back to health. While the Ancient Greeks turned to physicians to cure them, but not all of the Greeks used the physicians. It was because they believed in multiple gods they looked up to their gods