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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?
Herbs and plants -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today?
digitalis: helps the heart
Quinine: nausea
Belladonna and atropine: nausea
Morphine: pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Heath Records: First to keep accurate health records.
Who Are Physicians: priests acted as physicians
How Did They Heal: called upon gds and would use leeches to restore skin. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese