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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease cause
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer,Blood letting, -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis-for heart
Quinine-digestion
Belladonna and atropine-digestion
Morphine-pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health Records- Accurate Physicians learn to identify diseases and discover ways to heal them. Medicine -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Methods developed over time to what we now use today. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Caused by nature- Germs or lack of sanitation
Caused spiritual-kept records to tell if it was by supernatural forces Did not allow dissection Based off of knowledge on anatomy -
100
Ancient Romans
Brought clean water to cities and sewers for waste Sent medical equipment to armies for soldiers with wounds Roman physicians created a room in their house to take care of sick people -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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600
Medicine
They believed that death was held in gods hands and he would decide peoples death Discovered vaccines and medications -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Cause of many deaths
-Plague
-smallpox -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance