MEDICINE THROUGH TIME - Prehistoric

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  • Pre Historic Medicine
    • Religion
      • They believed that evil spirits would infest themselves in humans and make them ill
        • To scare the evil spirits, they wore Amulets around their neck
        • Whenever someone was ill, they also chanted songs to get rid of the evil spirits.
        • They used Trepanning (make a hole in the patients head) so that the evil spirits would leave the patients body
          • Science and Technology
            • Medicine would be passed down from generation to generation (a mother teaching her daughter how she believed to cure, and then her daughter told her own daughter etc)
              • Many women used herbs such as honey to cure little things (such as sore throats)
    • Key Individual
      • There was a Medicine Man, who was believed to be the only one that could cure the patients.
        • Religion
          • They believed that evil spirits would infest themselves in humans and make them ill
            • To scare the evil spirits, they wore Amulets around their neck
            • Whenever someone was ill, they also chanted songs to get rid of the evil spirits.
            • They used Trepanning (make a hole in the patients head) so that the evil spirits would leave the patients body
              • Science and Technology
                • Medicine would be passed down from generation to generation (a mother teaching her daughter how she believed to cure, and then her daughter told her own daughter etc)
                  • Many women used herbs such as honey to cure little things (such as sore throats)

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