Before the early 20th century, treatments for infections were based primarily on medicinal folklore.

Carbon 14 dating of a cave at Laang Spean in northwest Cambodia reveals people who made pots were living in Cambodia as early as 4200 BCE ( Before the Common Era ).

Before the early 18th century, the East India Company paid for its tea mainly in silver.

Before the advent of rock and roll, concept albums had their original heyday in jazz of the early to mid ' 50s with artists such as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, the latter of whom would record numerous concept albums for Capitol throughout the last half of the ' 50s such as In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Where Are You?

Before the 1960s ( and in some cases decades after ), many materials science departments were named metallurgy departments, from a 19th and early 20th century emphasis on metals.

Before the early 1960s, computers were mainly used for number-crunching rather than for text, and memory was extremely expensive.

Before the development of practical electronic TV, there were patents on mechanically scanned color systems as early as 1889 in Russia.

The pre-history of Sri Lanka dates back over 125, 000 years Before Present ( BP ) and possibly even as early as 500, 000 BP.

Before the Province of New York was granted county subdivisions and a greater royal presence in 1683, the early ducal colony consisted of York Shire, as well as Albany and Ulster, after the three titles held by Prince James: Duke of York, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ulster.

Before the late 1970s and early 1980s, it was common for many smaller cities to have their own operators.

Before Origen's time, the evidence is inconclusive ; there is a lack of definite early quotations from the letter in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, though possible use or influence has been located in the works of Clement of Alexandria ( d. c. 211 ), Theophilius ( d. c. 183 ), Aristides ( d. c. 134 ), Polycarp ( d. 155 ), and Justin ( d. 165 ).

Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war films realistically filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them The Frogmen, Go For Broke !, You're in the Navy Now, and Decision Before Dawn.

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail listsThe term " e-log " has been used to describe journal entries sent out via e-mail since as early as March 1996.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

Before the Apollo XI moon landing in 1969, NASA began early studies of space shuttle designs.

Before that, the earliest known proto-frog was Triadobatrachus massinoti, from the 250 million year old early Triassic of Madagascar.

* Eugene N. Borza: Before Alexander: constructing early Macedonia.

The retrospective show Before the Fringe, broadcast during the early years of BBC 2, took its title from this production.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

Former Easterhouse guitarist Ivor Perry was brought in to replace Marr, and the band recorded some new material with him which was never completed, including an early version of " Bengali in Platforms " that was originally intended as the B-side of " Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before ".

Before the TCDD risk was well understood, early production facilities lacked proper temperature controls.

Before the widespread use of Unix, TOPS-10 was a particularly popular system in universities, and in the early ARPANET community.

Before this, Huang ( 皇 ) and Di ( 帝 ) were given as titles of a number of rulers from the era known as the " sage kings " period, supposedly predating written history, but probably coinciding with or following the invention and early stages of evolution for the Chinese writing system.

Before the valley was linked by road to Kristiansand in the 1840s, people routinely traveled east and west across these moorlands.

Before about the 1840s, reporting on music was either done by musical journals, such as Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung or the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ( founded by Robert Schumann ), and in London such journals as The Musical Times ( founded in 1844 as The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular ); or else by reporters at general newspapers where music did not form part of the central objectives of the publication.

Before the 1840s, there were several attempts to replace the colonial charter with a new state constitution that provided broader voting rights, but all failed.

In the 1840s personal narrative Two Years Before the Mast, the author ( Richard Henry Dana, Jr .) describes the role of a second mate on an American merchant trading brig as follows:

Before leaving Ireland he was a frequent contributor to the periodical literature of the day, and took an active part in the Irish literary movement of the 1840s.

Before acquiring different forms of weaponry beginning in the colonial era, Seminole ancestors originally used spears with flint, bone or cane tips, war clubs studded with sharks ' teeth, and bows and arrows.

Before this people in Madeira had already created aguardente de cana ( sugar cane ), which was the ancestor to cachaça.

Before settling in Ybor City, many first worked in the sugar cane plantations in St.

Before this, the pests were manually collected by humans, so the introduction of the toad eliminated labor costs.

Before Harmony had a chance to reply, Rod cracked his long whip over his thin oxen's backs.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.

Before he went into battle Andrei had told Alex, `` I only want to be a Pole.

Before the Juniors entered the ring the Steward announced that after all Juniors had moved their dogs around the ring and set them up, they could relax with their dogs.

Before daylight Sunday morning, a posse of twenty-three men under the leadership of Deputy Sheriff Frank MacPherson of Catskill followed the trail to the house of Francisco Chaves, where 100 to 150 Mexicans had gathered.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake Shore Dr., admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with crime syndicate hoodlums.

`` Before then, my sales during much of the year had lagged behind 1960 by 20% '', he says.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

Before 1800 astronomers had isolated observational errors resulting

Before his departure from the city of Split, he had made over to the Templars the Castle of Klis, a strategic point in the hinterland of Split which controlled the approaches to the town.

Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.

Before that, several scientists had published or pointed out that mould or penicillium sp.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

Before his departure for Rome, his friends had applied to the Venetian senate for a pension, to enable him to pursue his studies without embarrassment.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.

Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.

Before this action, though, he had for the most part opted to continue the Whig policy of limited expansion, preferring to maintain the then-current borders as opposed to promoting expansion.

Before the 1704 campaign ended, the Allies had taken Landau, and the towns of Trier and Trarbach on the Moselle in preparation for the following year's campaign into France itself.