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We believe we got sick because the evil spirts were attacking us
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The tribal doctors would perform and release the evil spirits. They would also remove parts of the cranial, herbs and plants.
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Digitalis : Today it’s used in pills or injections, to treat heart conditions.
Quinine: This is used from the cinchona tree, it helps fevers, muscle spasm, and gastrointestinal pain.
Atropine: The medicine is used from the poisonous nightshade plant. It relives muscle spasms and gastrointestinal pain.
Morphine: This is used to treat severe pain, its normally used when nothing else works. -
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Health records: they were one of the first people to keep health records and they started to be able to identify diseases.
Who are physicians: they were priest who took on the role and learned how to set bone fractures, bloodletting.
How did they heal: using all the tools they were able to start treating people. -
Developments of acupuncture: they used this as early as the sone age, the medical pioneers used this to treat illnesses and diseases using stone tools.
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Illness cause nature vs spiritual: they were the first to discover the cause of the disease either natural or spiritual.
Dissection: religious reasons they were not allowed to do dissections.
Hippocrates: the father of medicine, he kept note on observations and symptoms. -
sanitation system: they started to realized that some disease would be spread to lack of sanitation. So the towns built aqueducts to bring clean water in.
Organize medical care: the Roman’s sent medical equipment and physicians to the battles.
Hospital development: physicians were paid by the government. This is how medical building were started and wearing masks. -
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for about 1,000 years medicine practice was stopped and only used in convents , monasteries. The church had believed that life and death was chose by god. The monks and priest had not interest in medicine so they relied on prayer.
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the treatment was prayer and herbal mixtures.
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the Black Death caused around 60 million people to die, other diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis.
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universities: buildings and medical schools for research. Looking into the disease.
Dissections: it was being accepted for the body study.
Books: this was used to have more access to research . -
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He studied and recorded the human body.
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He discovered the fallopian tube in the female body.
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He discovered the tube connecting the ear to the throat.
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He knew about physiology and was able to describe the pumping of the heart and blood circulation.
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He invented the microscope, he was then able to see that there were diseases smaller than the eye can see.
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these were early pharmacy’s, in England this used trade to spread drugs and spices.
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