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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused by?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments?
Bloodletting, exorcisms, etc. -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis for heart
Quinine for digestion
Belladonna and atropine for digestion
Morphine for pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records- first to keep accurate records
Physicians were priests
Heal?- medicines, splinting, bloodletting -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Acupuncture- started using stone tools, developed to Chinese acupuncture