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4000 BCE
Primitive Times
They believed sickness was caused by demons and spirits. Witch doctors preformed ceremonies to drive out the demons. They also used trepanation to treat insanity and headaches. -
Period: 4000 BCE to 410
Ancient Times
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3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Earliest to maintain health records. Prayed to God to heal them. Doctors were priests, used leaches to “unclog” blood. Average lifespan 20 to 30 years. -
1700 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Treated the whole body by curing the spirit, used moxibustion, used acupuncture, herbs, life span 20 to 30 years. -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Began modern medical science, dissected animals to compare anatomy, used herbal treatments and therapy, life span 25 to 35 years -
753 BCE
Ancient Romans
Used diets, exercise, and medications to treat illness, start of aqueducts, first to organize medical care for soldiers, drained marshes to reduce malaria. -
400
Dark Ages
Study of medicine was prohibited, they used prayer and divine intervention, ill were treated by monks and priests, mainly herb, 20 to 30 year -
Period: 400 to 1400
Dark and Middle Ages
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800
Middle Ages
Renewed medical practice, physicians went to medical universities, a pandemic killed 3/4 people, used animal gut for sutures, blood was thought to be the cause of diseases,
