Topic:Prehistoric fungi
In the ancient times, man had to face not only the opposing forces of nature, wild animals and
poisonous organisms, but also diseases, misfortunes that seemed to arise from nowhere.
Thousands of years passed before the man began to acquire knowledge concerning the nature,
treatment, and prevention of the infectious diseases. Our early progenitors found it natural to
attribute the responsibility of the epidemics that they could not rule to a divine will that had
to be satisfied with prayers, rites and sacrifices. The difficulties of a rational approach to the
understanding of the etiology of infections is well reflected by the lack of any reference
known before the Hindu, Greek and Roman civilizations, when the related diseases were
described, however, exclusively on the basis of signs, symptoms and treatments [Ajello,
1998].
Diagnosis – research resources
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