Prehistoric Medicine
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- Created on: 26-04-14 12:34
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- Prehistoric Medicine
- Who treated the sick?
- Women - family remedies using herbs
- Medicine man - charms/chanting
- Spirits 'caused illness' if you have been 'bad'
- Causes of death
- Infections
- Diseases - no germ theory
- Surgery - difficult to stop bleeding
- War
- Food shortages/ poor diet
- Treatments and Surgery
- Setting broken bones
- Family remedies using natural ingredients such as herbs
- Trephining - cutting a hole in the skull to 'release evil spirits'
- Only operated on obvious injuries - not internal injures
- Who treated the sick?
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