The paper herein focuses on the painting relating to the pharmacy in Babylonia. The central concept of the painting is about healthcare in this place. Ideally, the earlier times of healthcare saw Babylonia at the forefront in advocating for medical appealing. A lot of information revolves around how healthcare was conducted here. The ideal concept is how it was majorly handled by the physicians and exorcists as well. During this time, the health practitioners focused more on performing the responsibilities of the priests and the pharmacist. Besides, Babylonia marked the first place in which the art of apothecary was practiced. Medical information was encrypted on different clay tablets. These were used to record various symptoms and document multiple prescriptions to cure various illnesses. Interestingly, healthcare incorporated magic based on little scientific knowledge.
A closer look at the painting shows a sick person laid on the bed with an exorcist performing his magic. The pharmacists are seated down, trying to mix up the concoction forming medicinal value. The painting is elusive in illustrating a complete scene of how treatment in Babylon was conducted. Due to the inefficient knowledge these practitioners had on human anatomy, it forms a good explanation of why some of their prescriptions are not effective to date. Most of the combination of medicine administered were as a result of trial and error. Besides, most of the ideas they came up with were stereotypic and relied on some non-realistic speculation. Either way, there was some form of standard way in which healthcare systems in Babylonian was organized. Though there were a lot of efforts put in by the health practitioners, it seemed not efficient, considering there was not sufficient evidence to back up their assumption. Either way, their ideology formed an excellent benchmark for today’s healthcare.