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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
They practiced exorcism to get rid of the evil spirits. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
- Digitalis 2.Quinine
- Belladonna and Atropine
- Morphine
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Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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Period: 2900 BCE to 2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records- They were the first people to keep accurate health records. Who are the physicians? The priests. How did they heal? They used splinting fractures and bloodletting. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture- They figured out they could use stone tools to heal people and now they still use it today. -
990 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness cause nature v.s. Spiritual- They realized that illness may have a natural cause rather than spiritual. Dissection- Religion's did not allow dissections of the bodies. Hippocrates- He kept many notes on symptoms and figured out that illness and disease was not caused by supernatural forces . -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Sanitation systems- They brought clean water to their cities and made sewers to carry away waste. They also built public baths with a filtering system. Organize medical care- They kept a room in their house for the ill and sent medical equipment to the soldiers to treat them. Hospital development- When they started having rooms in their house for the ill that was the beginning of hospitals. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine, why?
They stopped because they only practiced it in convents or monasteries. -
700
How do they treats disease?
They treated diseases by herbal mixes. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics caused millions of deaths during this period. A big one was the bubonic plague (the Black Death). This killed 60 million people. Now they have vaccines. -
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