Prehistoric Medicine
- Created by: Chloe Reynolds
- Created on: 18-02-13 21:19
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- Prehistory
- Nomadic
- Did not settle in one place
- No need for it
- No sewers or hospitals
- No need for it
- No consistency
- No observations
- Did not settle in one place
- No written communication
- No passing of ideas
- Nothing remembered
- Building up skills to survive
- Trial and error
- Supernatural beliefs
- Spirits controlled life, death, disease & health
- Spiritual rituatls
- Witch doctor dominated medicine
- Body and disease
- Cannabalism
- Inner working of the body/flesh
- Functions of body determined by spirits
- Cannabalism
- Surgery
- Setting broken bones using mud
- Trepanning / Trephining
- Knocking a hole in the skull to release evil spirits
- Spirits controlled life, death, disease & health
- Relieving headaches
- Knocking a hole in the skull to release evil spirits
- Some surgeries were successful
- Diagnoses & Treatment
- No primary evidence
- Likely they knew little
- Aborigines
- Herbs
- Spiritual rituals for healing
- Shamans and witch doctors would preform the ritual
- No primary evidence
- Aborigines
- Useful as observations for what prehistory was like
- Australian
- Bury waste far away from camp
- Public Health
- Little or none
- No need for it
- No sewers or hospitals
- No personal health
- No links between dirt and disease
- Nomadic
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