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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease Caused by?
Primitive human beings believe it was supernatural spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick?
Tribal doctors preformed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits. They also remove parts of cranium with tool to exorcise demonds. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis- Comes from foxglove plant. Early times, people chewed plant’s leaves to strengthen and slow the heartbeat. Quinine- Comes from the bark of cinchona trees. It controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria. Belladonna and atropine- Made from poisonous nightshade plant. Relieves muscle spasm, especially in gastrointestinal pain. Morphine-Made from optimum poppy. Effectively treating severe pain. Very addictive, used when nothing else works. -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records: They kept accurate health records Who are physicians? The priests acted as physicians How did they heal?
Learned the arts of splinting fractures and treating disorders by bloodletting with use of leeches. Pooled blood around wounds can threaten the healing of tissue. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture: Early as Stone Age were first to use acupuncture therapies. How to rest various illnesses and diseases with stone tools. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness cause Nature vs. spiritual: First to study the causes of disease and to determine and illnesses have natural rather than spiritual causes. Dissection: Hippocrates: -
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