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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by?
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3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Doctors treated sickness by, Prayers, blood leading, exersixums, and amputation. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Medicines used today include:
Digitalis- Heart conditions
Quinine- Digestion
Belladonna and atropine-
Morphine- Pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
- Kept health records
- Preist
- Draining of blood and pointed fractures
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1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
The development of acupuncture was using acupuncture and stone tools. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Ancient Greeks found illness was caused naturally rather and NOT spiritually.
During ancient times for religious reasons they were not allowed to dissect bodies
Hippocrates wrote the standers of ethics