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| Question | Answer |
| PREHISTORIC | PREHISTORIC |
| PREHISTORIC What hindered medical process? | -No writing -Nomadic -No government |
| PREHISTORIC What did they think caused illness? | -Evil spirits if cause wasn't obvious |
| PREHISTORIC Where did they get their remedies? | -Medicine man -Community knew basic remedies |
| PREHISTORIC What remedies did they know (including surgery)? | -Trephinning -Mend broken bones with bark and mud casts -Herbal -Spiritual |
| ANCIENT EGYPT What factors affected medicine? | -Religion -Communication -- papyrus invented -Settlement -- could develop ideas -Government -- Pharaoh on top |
| ANCIENT EGYPT How did religion affect progress? | -Imhotep was Pharaoh's doctor -Priests encouraged cleanliness to please gods -Mummification and belief of after life ALTHOUGH -People still greatly believed in spiritual healing |
| ANCIENT EGYPT What ideas did they have on what caused illness? | -Books made -Blocked channels -Gods punishing them |
| ANCIENT EGYPT What was the theory of channels? | Egyptians saw that when the Nile flooded it blocked the channels killed the land. They applied this to the human body. |
| ANCIENT EGYPT Who provided medicine? | -Doctors -- had specialised doctors -BUT only available to the rich |
| ANCIENT EGYPT What medicine and surgery did they have? | -Herbal medicine -Able to remove cysts and tumours |
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