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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting, exorsisms, amputations -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis - for heart
Quinine - Digestion
Belladona and atrophine - digestion
Morphine - pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
How did they heal? - Medicines, Splinting fractures, bloodletting using leeches
Who are physicians? - Priests were physicians
Health Records - First to keep health records -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture- They were the first to use acupuncture -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness cause nature vs. Spiritual - they were the first to study this
Dissection - they didn't allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates - wrote the standard of ethics -
100
Ancient Romans
Sanitation Systems - they learned that the Greeks developed a sanitation system.
Organize medical care - they were the first to organize medical care
Hospital development - they had a room for the ill which was the beginning of hospitals -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine, why?
The Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns. -
700
How do they treat disease?
They started praying as a primary treatment. Medication consisted of herbal mixtures, care was custodial. -
Period: 800 to 1400 BCE
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Caused millions of death during the period.
Diseases - bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. -
Period: 1350 to 1650 BCE
Renaissance