Beliefs, causes and explanations for disease/sickness
- They believed every disease was caused by a supernatural phenomena.
- They believed that gods/witches/spirits could initiate diseases and also, that a cause of disease was that an evil spirit was trapped inside your body.
Treatments and cures
- Charms, Spells, Massages, Herbal remedies . Treatments given by medicine men.
Surgeries+ knowledge
- Bone resetting and Trephining
- Had simple if not no knowledge of how the human body worked.
Other facts:
Prehistoric era included people like the Aborgines. Information was passed down through oral tradition.
Rudimentary tools were available.
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