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Witchcraft Vs Modern Medicine Essay

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Moreover, for thousands of years, medicine and witchcraft are closely linked. Although the history of medicine dates back to ancient time, but before the development of modern science, health has been stagnant in infant stages. People do not understand the cause of the disease, only by virtue of instinct, intuition, imagination and superstition, the use of plants, animals and minerals and other natural substances to treat pain. Before the 17th century, most of the accidental diseases or natural disasters, would be considered as the attribution from older people or poorer women, means they use witchcraft, also, due to the civil courts, several people testify were enough to incriminate these people. Thus, for centuries this kind of injustice
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