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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick?
Herbs and plants -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis - foxglove plant, they used to chew it now it’s either in pill form or injection to treat heart conditions -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Quinine - comes from bark of a cinchona tree, helps with fevers, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Belladonna and atropine - made by poisonous plant and helps with muscle spasms and in gastrointestinal pain -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Morphine - made from opium poppy, treating severe pain and is addicting when nothing else will treat the pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records - they like to keep accurate health records -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Who are the physicians? - the priests are the physicians -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
How did they heal? - they used medicines -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture - they were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Dissection - they did not allow bodies to be dissected -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Hippocrates - he based his knowledge of anatomy and physiology on observation of the external body -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness cause nature vs. spiritual - they were the first to study disease and to determine that illness may have natural, rather than spiritual causes -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Sanitation systems - they brought water into the cities from waterways and they built sewers to carry off waste. They also built public baths with filtering systems -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Organize medical care - they were the first to organize medical care -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Hospital development- they sent medical equipment and physicians with armies to care for wounded soldiers. Roman physicians kept a room in their house for the ill. Public building were then established.