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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early begins
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Herbs and plants. -
Medicines used today
Digitalis : comes from a foxglove plant, taken as a pill to help treat heart conditions. Quinine: bark from a cinchona tree, helps fevers and relieve muscle spasms also helps prevent malaria. Belladonna and atropine :made from poisonous night shade plant that relieve muscle spasms and GI ( gastrointestinal pain ). Morphine: from opium poppy treating severe pain, can be addicting only used when nothing else works.