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The study of pathology, including the detailed (1) of the body, including dissection into specific maladies, dates back to antiquity. Rudimentary understanding of many conditions was present in most early societies and is attested to in the records of the earliest historical societies. By the Hellenic period of ancient Greece, a concerted causal study of disease was underway , with many (2) early physicians having developed methods of diagnosis and prognosis for a number of diseases.The medical practices of the Romans and those of the Byzantines continued from these Greek roots, but, as with many areas of scientific (3), growth in understanding of medicine stagnated some after the Classical Era, but continued to (4)develop throughout numerous cultures.