Medicine among Primitive Peoples was evident of surgery in skulls from the Stone Age. Some adults had holes cut in their skulls. Primitive people had simple treatments for these things e.g. Australian Aborigines covered broken arms in clay, which hardened in the hot sun. Cuts were covered with fat or clay and bound up with animal skins or bark whereas Ancient Egyptian Medicine was about 3000 BC the curtain rises on Egyptian civilization. Egyptian doctors used a huge range of drugs obtained from herbs and minerals. They were drunk with wine or beer or sometimes mixed with dough to form a 'pill'. Secondly Ancient Greek Medicine had its roots of modern medicine are in ancient Greece. People who were ill used to offer sacrifices to the god and sleep overnight in temple. Greek doctors developed a rational theory of disease and sought cures. However one did not replace the other. Finally the Roman Medicine conquered Greece and afterwards doctors in the Roman Empire were often Greeks. Many of them were slaves. Doctors had low status in Rome. However the state paid public doctors to treat the poor.