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evil spirits
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Prayer, exorcisms, blood letting
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Digitalis- comes from foxglove plant to treat heart condition
Quinine- comes from bark controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, helps prevent malaria
Belladonna and atropine- made from poisonous nightshade plant relieve muscle spasm especially in gastrointestinal
Morphine-made from opium poppy effective medication fro treating severe pain used only with nothing else will help -
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Health Records-Egyptians the earliest people to keep health records
Who are physicians-the priests acted as physicians
How did they heal-they called upon gods to heal them and used medicines to heal diseases -
Development of acupuncture- Stone Age first to was primitive acupuncture therapies learned to treat variety illness disease with stone tools developed into the advanced practice of Chinese acupuncture
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Illness cause nature vs.spiritual- illnesses have natural causes rather than spiritual causes
Dissection-to do there religion they couldn’t dissect body’s
Hippocrates- the father of medicine