CSPAN3 Reel America Health For All All For Health - 1988 July 13, 2024
From the beginning, the human race has had to contend with survival, disease, and death. Through the ages, populations were decimated and became extinct. Leaving behind only remnants of their cultures. It is difficult to establish at what point in history medicine appeared, but we have some record of diseases treated in parts of the world as far back as 2000 years bc. Throughout centuries, navigation developed, and epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and plague began to spread. Nations realized there was a need to fight these diseases together. 1851, the First International Health Conference w...