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Evil spirits
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Prayer, Exorcisms, bloodletting
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Digitalis - treat heart conditions
Quinine - Controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, helps prevent malaria.
Belladonna and atropine - relieves muscle spasms, especially in gastrointestinal (GI) pain.
Morphine - treats severe pain -
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Health records - earliest people to keep accurate health records, called upon gods to heal them, learned to identify certain diseases.
Who are physicians? - The priests acted as Physicians, used medicines to heal disease, learned art of splinting fractures.
How did they heal? - treated disorders by bloodletting with use of leeches. -
Development of acupuncture - First to use primitive acupuncture therapies, treat illness with stone tools.