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Period: 4000 BCE to
Early beginning
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3900 BCE
Disease caused
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting,exercicum and amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis-for heart
Quinine-digestion
Belladonna and atropine -digestion
Morphine -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Kept accurate health records
The priest acted as physicians
Bloodletting
Drain blood -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Treat disease with stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Greeks was natural not spiritual
Religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates based his knowledge of anatomy and physical -
Period: to 399
Ancient times