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Prehistoric medicine

• Trephining
• - hole board in the skull using a flint cutting tool.
• -used to treat headaches and epilepsy, believed bad spirits were causing the headache and they needed to let them out.
• - know people survived because ojn skulls you could see the bone had started to grow back.

• Amulet/ charm
• - a charm you would wear round your neck to keep bad spirits away.
• -filled with fecies, old finger nails and other badly smelling things to keep the spirits away

• medicine man
• -dances around an ill person then hold up a quartz crystal to the sun which they believed captured the bad spirits who were causing the illness.
• -worked because of the…