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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?
Prayer, Blood Letting, Amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicine Used Today…
Digitalis (for heart), Quinine (Digestion), Morphine (Pain), Belladonna and atropine (Digestion) -
Period: 2999 BCE to
Ancient Times
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1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
First to use acupuncture for healing therapies
Devolved into advanced practice, still used today/ -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
First to study cause of disease by nature instead of just spiritual causes.
Religious customs did not allow dissections. -
Ancient Egyptians
Found helpful to keep health records to corrilaqte patient conditions
Physicians (priests)
Used medicines to heal diseases, splinted fractures, and bloodletting(with leeches)