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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, exorcisms -
3100 BCE
Medicine Used Today
Digitalis for heart, Quinine, Belladonna, and Atropine for digestion, and Morphine for pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health Records- Ancient Egyptians were first to keep accurate heath records. They called upon gods to heal them and learned how to identify diseases. Their physicians were priests and they used medicines to heal diseases, learned to splint fractures and treated disorders by bloodletting with leeches. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Early medical pioneers treated illness and disease with with stone tools which developed into Chinese Acupuncture. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Were first to study causes of diseases and came to the conclusion that illnesses may have natural rather than spiritual causes. In this time, according to religious custom, bodies were not allowed to be dissected. So Hippocrates based his studies off of the external body and wrote the standard of ethics called the Oath of Hippocrates.