Choose a medical concept (disease, illness, balance, or treatment, and compare and contrast how that medical concept was expressed in two different historical civilizations. 

An interview with a History of Medicine expert discussed the use of social primary sources to understand attitudes about medicine. There were concepts in different regions.  Choose a medical concept (disease, illness, balance, or treatment, and compare and contrast how that medical concept was expressed in two different historical civilizations.

Your choice of medical concept is a primary concept for this short paper.

What do we learn about influences of other historical lens (government, economics, religion, social structure, resources, technology, and language) by using medicine as a historical source?