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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease Caused By?
Evil Spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for Sick?
trephinig- removing cranium to exorcise demons
exorcise- tribal doctors performed exorcise to exorcise demons -
3100 BCE
Medicines Used Today
Digitalis- Used for heart condition, was chewed for treatment (origin-foxglove plant)
Quinine- controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, and prevents malaria (origin-cinchona tree bark)
Belladonna and Atropine- relieves muscle spasms (origin-poisonous nightshade plant)
Morphine- treats severe pain, and rarely used (origin- opium poppy) -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
- Earliest kept accurate health records (superstitious)
- “Physicians” were priests, used medicine, learned splinting, and treated bloodletting with leeches
- healed Egyptians by draining blood around tissue
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1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Used stone tools, eventually developing into being the first to do acupuncture therapy -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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Period: to
18th Century
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Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Period: to
21st Century