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Evil spirits
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Blood leading, exorcise, and trephining
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Digitalis-treats heart conditions
Quinine-controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria
Belladonna and atropine- relieve muscle spasms
Morphine-pain medicine -
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Health records-first people to keep records
Who are physicians-the priests
How did they heal-medicines -
Development of acupuncture-first to use acupuncture and used stone tools
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Illness cause Nature vs Spiritual-the Greeks were the first to study the causes of disease
Dissection-religious customs didn’t allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates-the father of medicine -
Sanitation systems-brought clean water into their cities by waterways
Organize medical care-they physicians and medical equipment with armies for the wounded(physicians also kept rooms in their homes for the ill)
Hospital development-public buildings for the care of the sick were established -
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The church believed that life and death was in gods hands
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Prayers and medicine consisting of herbal mixtures
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caused millions of deaths, some include:the black death, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis
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The rebirth of learning:
Universities- universities/medical schools were built Dissection-now excepted
Books-the development of the printing press and the publishing of books