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| believed in evil spirits,blamed illness on the supernatural |
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| Prehistoric medicine resources |
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| are not reliable because there is hardly any evidence, most evidence from cave paintings or from archaeological evidence. |
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| brain surgery called trephination, stone instruments to bore a hole into the skull, to release demon spirits,treat skull fractures or remove bone splinters. |
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| prehistoric natural remedies mud |
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| using mud or bark to cover cuts and wounds, kept the cuts and wounds clean and protected |
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| prehistoric natural remedies herbs and plants |
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| used to treat coughs, colds, fevers, and treat cuts and wounds |
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| prehistoric natural remedies witch doctors |
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| used saliva and sweat to massage ill people, both of these have antiseptic properties, cleaning wounds |
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| prehistoric natural remedies coca plant |
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| the leaves when chewed relive pain |
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| prehistoric Anatomy cave paintings |
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| cave paintings showed they had some idea of what the inside of animals bodies looked like |
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| Greek medicine old ideas that still remain |
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| still believed that disease was a punishment from gods |
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| The theory of the four humours |
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| Thinkers believed that if you had too much of one humour or not enough of another then a person would fall ill. |
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| Blood, Philegm, black bile, yellow bile |
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| Hippocrates- father of greek medicine |
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| 460bc-370bc, developed the theory and natural treatments, encouraged observation and recording |
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| Greek surgery instruments |
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| 1200 BC use of iron and steel gave doctors stronger and sharper instruments. |
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| draining of blood from the lungs if a patient had pneumonia, successful |
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| was not carried out because they thought it was wrong. |
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| found out that brain controls the body,found the difference between arteries and veins,identified parts of the stomach. |
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| found out that the heart had four one way valves |
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| proved brain not heart controlled body, |
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