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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting, -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis- for heart
Quinine- digestion
Belladonna and atropine- digestion
Morphine- pain -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
The Egyptians were the earliest people to keep health records. The priests are the physicians and they use medicines to heal. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
They were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies and is still used today. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
-They were the first to determine that illnesses were natural rather than spiritual.
-Religion costumes did not allow bodies to be dissected
-The father of medicine was Hippocrates -
100
Ancient Romans
-They found that some disease was caused by a lack of sanitation.
-the Roman’s were the first to organize medical care
-This was the start of hospital buildings for the care of the sick -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Why they stopped the study of medicine
They believed life and death were in gods hands -
700
How they treated disease
The primary treatment was prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
This caused millions of deaths -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
The scientists started learning and created medical schools -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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Period: to 399 BCE
Ancient Times