Ancient medicine

Ancient medicine

Prehistoric medicine
1. Surgery
  1. Trepanning/trephining
2. Prevention
  1. Praying
  2. Chanting
  3. Wearing charms
3. Ideas about causes
  1. Evil spirits
  2. Accidents
4. Healers
  1. Medicine man
  2. Female family members
5. Treatments
  1. Setting broken bones using mud and leaves
  2. Herbal remedies
  3. Using charms to repel evil spirits
6. Knowledge of the body
  1. Very limited, completely unaware of how diseases were spread
  2. Blamed spirits/gods for illness
Egyptian
1. Surgery
  1. Trepanning
    1. Drilling a hole in the skull to allow spirits to exit one's body
2. Treatments
  1. Setting broken bones
    1. Using mud and tree bark
  2. Prayers
  3. Herbal remedies
  4. Wearing charms
3. Healers
  1. Medicine man
  2. Mothers/female family members
4. Knowledge of the body
  1. Very limited knowledge of how the body worked and how diseases were passed on
5. Prevention
  1. Prayers
  2. Wearing charms
6. Ideas about causes
  1. Evil spirits
  2. Karma
  3. Gods
Greek
1. Healers
  1. Specialist doctors
  2. Female family members
2. Ideas about causes
  1. Four humours
    1. Believed that balance was necessary
    2. Link to elements and seasons
3. Treatments
  1. Rebalancing humours (eg bleeding)
  2. Asclepia
    1. Temples built by the Greeks based on the God Asclepius
      1. Idea that he would visit in the night and heal the sick
4. Prevention
  1. Frequent bathing killed some germs
  2. Healthy diet and exercise
5. Knowledge of the body
  1. First dissection in Alexandria
    1. Realised brain controlled body not heart
6. Surgery
  1. Dissection
Roman
1. Healers
  1. Physicians
  2. Galen
    1. Served as count physician to the Emperor
2. Ideas about causes
  1. Four humours
3. Treatments
  1. Stretching broken legs to realign bone
  2. More use of bleeding and observation/note taking
4. Prevention
  1. Invented public baths and sewers
5. Knowledge of the human body
  1. Learned that the brain controlled speech
  2. Learned that the arteries carried blood around the body
  3. Galen developed dissection
6. Surgery
  1. Removing cataracts from eye
  2. Developed casesarian

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