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We believe diseases were caused by evil spirits.
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- The Egyptians were the first people to keep accurate health records.
- The priests were the physicians, and used their faith to help heal their patients.
- The Egyptians used medicines to heal diseases, they learned how to splint broken bones, and used leeches to treat blood disorders.
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They were the first to use acupuncture therapies to heal the body.
- The Chinese medical pioneers used this method to treat a variety of illnesses and diseases. -
Their medicine was considered more of an art than a profession.
- Were the first people to come up with the idea that diseases were caused naturally instead of spiritually.
- For religious reasons, the Greeks did not allow bodies to be dissected.
- Hippocrates based his knowledge of the body and physiology on his observations of the body externally. -
- The Romans invented a waterway system to keep their medicine sanitary.
- They were the first to organize their medical care and patients.
- The Roman physicians kept a specific room in their house for ill patients. This was the beginning of hospitals.