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A tribal doctor cut out a part of the cranium
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Digitalis - used to treat heart conditions.
Quinine - controls a fever and relieves muscle spasms
Belladonna and atropine - relieve muscle spasms, especially in gastrointestinal pain
morphine - treats severe pain -
Evil spirits
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they were the earliest people to keep health records and the priests were the physicians they used medicine to heal diseases, learned how to splint fractures and used blood letting.
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the ancient Chinese were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies. They learned to treat a variety of illnesses and diseases with stone tools.
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a new scientific progress began.
- universities/medical schools
- search for new ideas about diseases
- the accpeptance of dissection
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millions of people died from the “Black Death” and other uncontrolled diseases
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they were the first to study the cause of diseases and to determine that illnesses may natural, rather than spiritual causes. Dissection was prohibited during ancient times. Hippocrates based his knowledge of anatomy and physiology on observation of the external body.
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They brought clean water to their cities by aqueducts and built sewers to carry off waste. They sent medical equipment and physicians in armies to care for wounded soldiers. The physician kept rooms in their house open for the ill. This was the beginning of hospitals.
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church believed that life and death were in gods hands.
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herbal mixtures and cared for patients. The primary treatment was prayer