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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginings
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3900 BCE
Disease Caused By?
Supernatural Spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for the Sick
They performed ceremonies to exorcise the evil spirits. They also sometimes removed a part of the cranium and used herbs and plants. -
3100 BCE
Medicines Still Used Today
Foxglove plant in a pill form or through an injection. Quinine controls fevers, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria. -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptian’s
They were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. Early Egyptians were priests who acted as physicians. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
They were first to use primitive acupuncture therapies. They learned to treat diseases and illnesses with stone tools. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Medicine was considered an art not just a profession. They housed sacred temples of healing. -
100
Ancient Romans
The Roman’s were the first to organize medical care. They had rooms in their houses for the ill. The start of hospitals started here. The Roman physicians wore a death mask. A death mask had spices in the beak which the Roman’s thought protected them from infection and bad odors. -
Period: 400 to 300
The Dark Age
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500
Stopped the Study of Medicine, Why?
Church’s believed that life and death were in God’s hands. Therefore, they thought the primary treatment was prayer. -
700
How do they Treat Disease?
Medications which were mostly made of herbal mixtures. They also thought that prayer was the main treatment. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
They created vaccines to stop all of these epidemics. The epidemics causes millions of deaths after deaths during this time. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
They built universities and medical schools for research. The acceptance of dissection of the body for study was used. The printing press was developed. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Century
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1515
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.