The dawn of civilization and, primarily, differentiation of labor and governing functions concerned all aspects of life of human communities transforming them into slave-owning states of the ancient world. And this process involved not only farmers, merchants, craftsmen, military men, leadership elite, but also the representatives of religious cults, developing on the basis of initial beliefs in extramundane, transcendental origin of all life phenomena and events - pagan diversity, multitheistic, not worshiping the one God, which became the implementation of major religions surviving to present day - Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam etc. Religion united people and under one government, permeating all the aspects of human life, moreover, claiming spiritual supremacy and quite often the authority in a state.
Certainly, the process of establishment of states, private property, differentiation of labor and civil and religious power could not but have an impact on healing practices of that period which became more and more qualified, developing the techniques and concepts of folk medicine of the primitive society. In the process of differentiation of labor craftsmen-healers evolved, who specialized in diagnostics and treatment of different illnesses and injuries - internal, external, skin diseases, etc., treatment of traumas, even in performing surgeries and obstetrics. They all were guided by reasonable experience of folk medicine, moreover, of temple medicine that appeared later in the first slave-owning states of antiquity, and of course they could not help but fall under the influence of theurgical, religious beliefs. It is known that in temples dedicated to numerous gods, priests themselves cured sick people, attributing the emergence