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-illness and diseases were a punishment from the gods
-tribal with doctors treated illness with ceremonies
-herbs and plants used as medicines
-trepanation or trephining (surgically removing a piece of bone from the skull. -
-Physicians were priests
-Bloodletting or leeches was used as medical treatment
-Egyptians kept accurate health records
-Developeds the art of splinting and fractures -
-Believed illness was a natural cause
-Stressed diet and exercise as ways to prevent disease
-Average life span was 25-35 years
-first to observe the human body and the effects of diseases of the body. -
-dark ages emphasis on saving soul and study of medicine banned
-monks and priest provided custodial care for sick
-prayer and divine intervention used
-medications herbal mixes -
-First to organize medical care for wounded soldiers
-early hospitals allowed for separation of well and sick.
-beinning of public health and sanitation systems
-diet exercise and medications used to treat disease. -
-believed in thee need to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and the body
-began to search for medical reasons for illness
-used therapies such as acupunture -
