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Evil spirits
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Doctors performed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits
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Digitalis; pill form and is a treatment for heart conditions. Quinine; controls fevers, relieve muscle spasms, and prevents malaria. Belladonna and atropine; relieve muscle spasms, especially (GI) pain. Morphine; treats severe pain, it is an addiction medicine.
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Health Records; they were superstitious and called upon gods to heal them. Who are physicians; the priests. How did they heal; they used medicine, bloodclotting with leaches, drain blood.
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Development of acupuncture; treat illness and disease with stone tools, and their practice advance to Chinese acupuncture still used today.
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Illness cause nature vs spiritual; they discovered that it may have natural, rather than spiritual causes. Dissection; religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates; they did the research and wrote the oath of Hippocrates by recording things.
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sanitations systems; they got clean water, built sewers, and public baths. organize medical care; they were the first to organize the medical and patients. hospital development; the woman physicians specific room for the patients.