Prehistoric Medicine
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?- Created by: pxrklife
- Created on: 01-03-16 13:55
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- Prehistoric
- Prehistoric lives
- Nomads
- Hunter-Gatherers
- Lived in small groups
- Very simple technology
- Spears, bows and arrows
- Made from wood, bone and stone
- No writing
- Evidence
- Remains of people
- Broken bones, damaged joints, bone cancer & poor nutrition
- Remains of things they made
- Remains of people
- Surgery
- Trephining
- Cutting a hole in someone's skull
- Some skulls have growth around the hole which shows the person lived
- Trephining
- Supernatural Causes and treatments
- Everything that didn't have an obvious cause was said to be caused by spirits
- Spirit had left the body
- The treatment was to find the 'pointing bone' which had took the spirit
- An evil spirit had entered the body
- A medicine man would drive the spirit out
- Charms and spells to help healing
- Trephining
- Used to drive out evil spirits
- Natural Treatments
- Clay casts for broken bones
- Herbs
- Knew over 100 herbs with healing properties
- Prehistoric lives
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