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Evil Spirts
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They’ve performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits
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Digtails are given in pill form and control heart conditions
Quinine is a bark. It controls fever, relive muscle spasm’s, and helps prevent malaria
Belladona and Atropine made from poisonous nightshade and it relives muscle spasms
Morphine is from opium poppy treating severe pain. (It’s addicting) -
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They were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priest acted as physicians. They healed by using medicine to heal diseases. They loved bloodletting with leeches.
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Started with stone tools is how they would heal them for illness and disease
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They were the first to discover that illness was natural and not cause by spirits. Hippocrates based his knowledge off of anatomy and his observations and he found that it was true that sickness is cause by nature. And then they wrote the ethics called oath of Hippocrates
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The study of medicine stopped when the Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns. And was only practiced in convents and monasteries.
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The primary way to treat disease was through prayer. But if they did use medicine it was made of herbal mixtures
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The epidemics of this time killed millions. The Black Death killed 60 million alone. They also suffered smallpox, syphilis, and diphtheria.
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During this time they built universities so that they could study they were also building medical schools. They started to accept that you should study of dissection to the body. They started printing and publishing books so that people had a wider reach to information.
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Study and record the anatomy of the body
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Discovered the fallopian tubes in the human body
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Found the tube from the ear to the throat
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He was able to describe the circulation and the pumping of blood.