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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, aumputation -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis- for heart
Quinine- digesting
Morphine- pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient egyptians
Earliest people to keep health records
The priests were the physicians
They used medicines to heal -
1900 BCE
Ancient chinese
They were the first to use acupuncture therapys and its still used today -
900 BCE
Ancient greeks
-They were the first to find out ilnesses could be natural
- religious customs didn’t allow bodys to be dissected at this time
- hippocrates is the father of medicine -
100
Ancient romans
- they found out the diases were by lack of sanitation
- romens were the first ones to have organized medicare
- it was the start of hospital buildings and care for the sick
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Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine
They believed life and death where in Gods hands -
700
Treated diseases
Primary treatment was in a prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Caused millions of deaths -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
-They started re learning and created medical school
- they started dissecting bodys
- they started making books for health researches -
Period: 1501 to
16 and 17 centuries