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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused?
Evil spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, exorcisms -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today?
Morphine- pain
Quinine- digestion -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records- first to keep accurate records
Physicians- priests
How did they heal- medicines, and bloodletting with leeches -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture- The Chinese were the first to acupuncture therapy to treat illness/disease- still used today -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Nature vs. spiritual illness- the first to study diseases leading to discover what caused illness
Dissection- were not allowed to dissect bodies from religious customs
Hippocrates- the father of medicine