MEDICINE THROUGH TIME - Prehistoric

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  • Prehistoric Medicine
    • Disease and Infection
      • Many used herbs such as honey and lemons to cure small things such as sore throats
      • They believed that disease happened because evil spirits attacked humans and infested themselves in them.
    • Surgery and Anatomy
      • They used trepanning (make a hole in the head) to get rid of the evil spirits
    • Public Health
      • Medicine man was believed to cure diseases by chanting and giving the patients Amulets to get rid of the evil spirits.
        • Disease and Infection
          • Many used herbs such as honey and lemons to cure small things such as sore throats
          • They believed that disease happened because evil spirits attacked humans and infested themselves in them.
      • In the prehistoric times, everyone was in a tribe that was always moving and did not have a fixed place to live. Thus, they did not get infections from their environment because they were never in a fixed one

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