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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease Caused
Evil spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments For Sick
Prayer,Blood letting, Amputation, Exorcism -
3100 BCE
Medicines Used Today
Digitalis- 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
Health Records- First to keep accurate records
Who are physicians?- Priests were the physicians
How did they heal?- Used medicines, blood letting -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of Acupuncture- Had learned that illness can be treated with stone tool. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
illness cause Nature vs Spiritual- They were the first to realize illness could have been caused naturally, but, it used to be consider art.
Dissection- Because of religion they were not allowed bodies to be dissected.
Hippocrates- they wrote the standard ethics, which is the standard basis for medical ethic used today. -
100
Ancient Romans
Sanitation Systems- They kept a room for the ill.
Organize Medical Care- The designated room lead to the beginning hospitals.
Hospital Development- Public buildings started to be made a the government started to pay physicians. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age