History- medicine through time

Prehistoric time-

exam focus-what did prehistoric people believe about the cause and cure of illness?

key areas

• know what trephinning is?why it was done?
• Knowledge they knew about the anatomy
• bones found by archaeologists show people suffered from arthiritis
• probaly knew little about the human anatomy but knew how ito kill animals(cave paintaing show animals with spears in their heart
• fossiled bones show that they have been healed completeley(may have know how to fix them)
• evidence in their bones points them cacthing rabies
• prehistoric people did not have to suffer disease we do today?
• witch doctors?
• …