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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
Prayer, blood letting -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitals- for heart
Quinine- digestion
Belladonna and atropine- digestion
Morphine- pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Egyptians were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priests acted as physicians. To heal they used medicine for diseases, learned how to splint fractures, and did blood letting which is where they would use leeches to treat disorders. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
The early medical pioneers used stone tools for acupuncture. Eventually there methods advanced. -
900 BCE
Ancients Greeks
The Greeks first thought that the cause of illness was spiritual but they eventually searched for new information and found that it was natural. Religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates wrote the standard ethics called the oath of Hippocrates, physicians today still take this oath.