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4000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease Cause
Early Spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatment for Sick
Prayer, blood letting, exorcism, and amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicines Used Today
Digitalis- For Heart
Quinine- Digestion
Belladonna and atropine- Nausea
Morphine- Pain Medicine -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Were the earliest to keep accurate health records. The priest took on the role as physicians and used medicines to heal disease. They also learned about splinting fractures and treated some disorders by bloodletting by utilizing leeches. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Were the first civilization to use primitive acupuncture therapies therapies. They learned that these practices could treat a variety of illness and diease with acupuncture therapies. This developed into the advance practice of Chinese acupuncture, and is still used today. -
900
Ancient Greeks
They were the first to study the cause of dis3ease and determined that illnesses could potentially have natural causes instead of spiritual cause. Also, during ancient times, Religous customs did not allow bodies to be dissected. The father of medicine, Hippocrates, wrote the standards of ethics caked the Oath of Hippocratics.