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As the gap widens between historical medicine and medicine as we know it, some similarities still remain. Modern medicine is not dependent on folklore and superstition; however, some instances can be found even today. Innovative medical procedures, treatments, and cures for numerous illnesses have been discovered as a result of constant advancements in technology. Although, medicine today may seem much more sophisticated than that of earlier times, many of the ancient advances in medicine paved the way for the thriving medical community present today. In early medicine, illness and disease, especially mental illness, was associated with the devil or evil. Early civilizations didn’t have any knowledge of mental illnesses. As a result, when a person started showing signs of a mental illness it was believed that he or she was possessed by the devil. To rid the body of these “evil spirits” practices of exorcism and bleeding were perfor