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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Exorcism -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis for heart
Quinine for digestion
Belladonna and atropine
Morphine -
3000 BCE
Ancient times
Heath records- Accurate
Who are physicians-learned about ways to solve diseases.
How did they heal?-Medicine Development of acupuncture- created different ways to treat illnesses
- improve
- we still use advanced practice of Chinese acupuncture. -Greeks looked into Illnesses and would find out if it was caused spiritual or nature.
Spiritual- They kept records to examine
Nature- They could tell if it was caused by bacteria and germs
Used death mask- kept bad bacteria from entering their body. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
Stopped medicine- Church thought that god would decide when you die.
How do they treat a disease?- Medications and vaccines. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
Epidemics-
-sickness killed millions of people
-Uncontrollable disease -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
Rebirth
-new scientific improvent was made
- Universities and medical schools were in the process of build
-Dissection was allowed
-Books for easy access