Ancient Medicine
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- Ancient Medicine
- Prehistoric times
- The medicine man asked evil spirit to come out of you.
- Charms: Aborigines wore them to keep evil spirtis away
- Herbs and Plants:Remedies used fr cuts the women normally gathered them.
- Trephining was also a treatment.
- Women: Normally died due to poor diet or childbirth
- Spirits: Aborigines believed everyone had a spirit, evil spirits made you ill.
- Eygyptians
- Communications were improved as the Egyptians developed writing meaning doctors could record medical cases and write treatments down.
- Specialists doctors: They developed very quickly because Pharaohs spent lots of money on them meaning they could advance their medical knowledge further.
- Religion&Anatomy: Dut ot enbalming Egypitians knew some a bit about the organs in the body. They didnt know what their function was but they knew wehre they were.
- Causes of ilness: They thought it was casued by the gods and spirits. But they also developed a natural theory: ilness was casued when the channels became blocked like the Nile.
- Hygiene and Cleanliness
- Trade helped as they good get differnet herbs from surrounding countries ans materals for tools
- Greeks
- Hippocrates:Wrote a series of books talking about his methods and treatments, he encouraged people to look at natural treatments not supernatural, the hippocratic oath, 4 humours.
- Asclepus the God of healing. People went to the Asclepion to be cured, gave them a good diet, sleep, exercise
- Romans
- Galen: Careful observations, The theory of opposites, dissection and surgery
- People liked Galen because his ideas supported the Church.
- PublicHealth:Public fountains, aquaducts, bath houses, SEWERS, reserviours.
- Galen: Careful observations, The theory of opposites, dissection and surgery
- Prehistoric times
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