The goal of medicine is to prevent diseases, to help patients and treat them in case of illness. Humans’ health compatibility is the most important feature in the world and the state between health and death is called disease. Getting sick is not an immediate phenomenon, it is caused by a lot of factors. Consequently, people are not used to supervise themselves and to analyse their sensations. For this reason, mankind do not encounter problems if the diseases are temporary. That means before the illness develops there are always inconstant, short-termed conditions which are treated with wrong medicaments but sometimes body is able to resist microorganisms itself (Guogienė, 1994). Health is a unique value, nature’s gift to human being. People can accumulate social, material, cultural values if they take good care of themselves. The discoveries let people to achieve everything more quickly in a convenient way. Although technologies are very important in this world the mind of human being is the most powerful thing. Health is stipulated by …show more content…
One of the most important inventions in medical history is when Andreas Vesalius conducted a public dissection of humans’ body structure. He is now called founder of anatomy (Windelspecht, 2002). But even this kind of leap did not prevent the world from diseases. Diseases ant treatments are categorized in a several ways. The most important are: by cause, symptoms and diagnosis. The incurable disease which nowadays is not very relevant in Europe is called poliomyelitis. It is a viral infection of the nervous system which leads to paralysis. The most common symptoms are headache, fever, and nausea and muscle pains. John Salk was the first medical researcher who invented a vaccine from polyemiolitis (Usonis, n.d.). Until 1959 (USA) 300 thousand Salk vaccine dozes were released. Even though that did not stop