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 1840s, the cane toad had been introduced into Martinique and Barbados, from French Guiana and Guyana.

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 1970s, community colleges in the United States were more commonly referred to as junior colleges, and that term is still used at some institutions.

Before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic films noirs were referred to as melodramas.

A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend " Dick Nixon Before He Dicks You ", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U. S. president.

Before the 1970s, physicists were uncertain about the binding mechanism of the atomic nucleus.

Before the 1970s, most of Iraq's people lived in the countryside and roughly two-thirds were peasants.

Before the 1970s, dancers of both sexes appeared largely in underground clubs or as part of a theatre experience, but the practice eventually became common enough on its own.

Before tract development, beginning in the early 1970s, Lawrenceville was broadly defined as stretching two to three blocks back from Route 206.

Before the 1970s when Malay was made the medium of instruction, many such selective schools became known for providing excellent English-medium education and have produced many notable alumni, including the current Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Tun Razak ( St. John's Institution ) and all five of his predecessors.

Before the 1970s, football was basically seen as a men's game.

Before it was turned into a club, the Haçienda was a yacht builder's shop and warehouse before becoming a Bollywood cinema in the 1970s, showing films to the local Asian community.

* Before Austin and Felicity make their escape back to 1999, Felicity tells Austin she wants to experience the 1970s and 1980s.

Before long, he began producing his own small scale tours before becoming a London-based producer in the 1970s.

Before the introduction of the microprocessor in the early 1970s, computers were generally large, costly systems owned by large institutions: corporations, universities, government agencies, and the like.

Before the merger, Mirage Resorts ( formerly Golden Nugget Companies, Inc .) had been in operation since the 1970s.

* Margaret Atwood's 1979 novel Life Before Man is set in Toronto in the late 1970s and several characters watch and sometimes comment upon the elections and sovereignist movement in Quebec.

Before the 1970s, there was no deaf community in Nicaragua.

Before the 1970s, his keyboard playing was sparse on recordings, because the intricacy of his music required that he conduct, but after the 1970s, he gradually moved from the front of the band back " into " the band.

Before Khadafi Janjalani was born, in the early 1970s, the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNLF ) was the main Muslim rebel group fighting in the Basilan region of the southern Philippines.

Before 1970s, the nuclear deterrence was long established under the government of Suhrawardy, but was completely peaceful and devoted for civil power.

Before the purchase, Barq's produced other sodas, such as lime green and grape, in the 1970s and early 1980s, and Coca-Cola manufactured its own root beer, Ramblin ' Root Beer.

Before the discoveries of A. afarensis in the 1970s, it was widely thought that an increase in brain size preceded the shift to bipedal locomotion.

Before the Iowa caucus first received national attention in the 1970s ( Republicans began caucusing in Iowa in 1976 ), the New Hampshire primary was the first binding indication of which presidential candidate would receive the party nomination.