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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis for heart, quinine digention , belladonna and atropine digeston , morphine pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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1900 BCE
Ancient chinese
First to use primitive acupuncture therapy -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
First to determine that illness are natural
Religion customs did not allow bodies to be dissected
Father of medicine -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Lack of sanitation
Romans were the first to organize medical care
Start of hospital public building for the care of the sick -
299
Ancient Egyptians
Earliest people to keep health records
Priests that acted as physicians
Used medicines to heal diseases -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopped study of medicine? Why?
Believe life and death were in gods hands -
700
How do they treat diseases
Primary treatment was pray -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Rebirth
The started learning and created medical school
Acceptance dissection of the body for student
Started boooks for research -
1100
Epidemics
Caused millions of deaths -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance