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Medicine: what is the first civilisation in medicine?
Prehistoric
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Define prehistoric medicine?
Before records were written down
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What were prehistoric people's lives like?
Hunter gathers, nomadic lifestyle
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How do we know about prehistoric times?
Cave paintings and bones
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What did people die from prehistoric times?
No way of stopping disease and food shortages
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What are problems with archaeological evidence from prehistorics?
Limited amount of information and can be damages
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How were injuries dealt with in prehistoric times?
Medicine man and knowledge of environment to cure things
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What were beliefs and cures in prehistoric times?
Released evil spirits (trephining), mud casts, chants, herbs, medicine man
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In Egyptian times what changed?
There were written records, some medical knowledge and trading
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Why were the Egyptian doctors different?
Specialist doctors for each part of the body
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Why did mummification help anatomical knowledge?
You could see where organs went in the body but not their function
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What significance did the river Nile have in Egyptian times?
When the Nile was blocked the crops didn't grow and this theory was applied to the body
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How did trading influence medicine?
It allowed objects to be swapped for herbs to create new medical ideas
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When was trading invented?
Egyptian times
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What were the Egyptians beliefs?
Supernatural and natural
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How did egyptians apply the blocked channels theory?
They decided if a channel was blocked it was undigested food and they would treat it
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How did the Egyptians treat blocked channels
Honey (sore throats now) and mouldy bread (penicillin)
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In Greek medicine what theory did Hippocrates come up with?
The four humours
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Which building did the Greeks build?
The asclepion
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Why did people go to the Asclepion
To get cured from their illness by praying to god
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