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4000 BCE
Primitive times
Witch doctors used to cure illness -
4000 BCE
primitive times
Trepanation or trephining -
4000 BCE
primitive times
Herbs and plants used as medicines -
4000 BCE
primitive times
Illness and diseases were a punishment from the gods -
4000 BCE
primitive times
Lifespan 20 years -
Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Primitive times
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3000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Used Bloodletting leeches -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
physicians were priests -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptians embalmed people to preserve them -
Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Ancient Eqypt
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2667 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Imhotep introduced the idea of disease being natural -
2000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Lifespan 20 years -
1700 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Believed sickness was a result of your yin and yang being out if balance -
1700 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Knew that exercise and eating well led to good health -
1700 BCE
Ancient China
Life expectancy 25 years -
Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
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1200 BCE
Ancient Greece
The ancient Greeks believed that mental and physical health were interrelated -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greece
Life span 25-35 years -
Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE
Ancient Greece
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1000 BCE
Ancient Greece
Used therapies such as massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment -
Period: 753 BCE to 410
Ancient Romans
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460 BCE
Ancient Greece
Hippocrates introduced many health concepts and ideas -
186 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Cauterization -
100 BCE
Ancient Chinese
acupuncture -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Ages
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Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Ages
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Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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Period: 1501 to
16th and 17 centuries
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Period: to
18th century
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Period: to
19th century
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Period: to
20th century
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Period: to
21st century
