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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease Caused By?
Evil Spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments For Sick?
They would preform an exorcise, to force out evil spirts and have a trephining ceremony to surgically remove remove demons. -
3100 BCE
Medicines Used Today
Digitalis-plant used to treat heart conditions/slow heart
Quinine- tree used to control fever, relieve muscle spasms and prevent malaria
Belladonna and Atropine- poisonious nightshade plant that relives muscle spasms in GI symptoms
Morphine- opium poppy treating serve pain, addicting -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
-Health records: earliest ppl who kept health records, learned how to identify and treat certain diseases
-Physicians: priest acted as physicians, learned how to heal diseases
-Heal: splitting fractures and treating disorders by most common method attaching leaches to drain blood -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture- early as Stone Age would first use (medical pioneers) learned to treat variety of diseases with stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness nature vs. Spiritual } study diseases and found out they were natural versus spiritual, keep record on what might cause illness, searched for new ways to treat, research helped eliminate superstition and further developed use of massage and herbal therapies -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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Period: to
18th Century
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Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Period: to
21st Century