Medicine In Prehistoric Times 1
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- Created on: 12-03-13 18:11
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- Medicine In Prehistoric Times
- Prehistoric People - before we had written records
- Short life and very hard
- So to understand, we depend on tools used, cave paintings, and bones
- Diseases
- Suffered from
- Cut up dead animals to eat them
- Arthritis
- Fractures (healed)
- Rabies, gangrene
- Not suffered from
- Ate a lot of plants and herbs, healthy.
- No diseases involving fast food, smoking or drinking alcohol
- Not pollute water supplies, pile up human waste, and filth that could attract disease carrying insects.
- Suffered from
- Supernatural
- Witch doctor
- Blamed evil spirits
- Released through trepanning
- Bits of skull found with hole trhoguh middle, worn around neck as lucky charm
- Keywords
- Nomadic - not staying in one place
- Trepanning - drilling of hole in skull
- Prehistoric - before writing of history begins
- Witch doctor - cure illness by magic
- Prehistoric People - before we had written records
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