PREHISTORIC MEDICINE

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
1. PREHISTORIC MEN HUNTED INSTEAD OF GROWING CROPS
2. THERE WAS NO WRITTEN EVIDENCE
  1. HISTORIANS RELIED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE INSTEAD
WHAT DID PREHISTORIC MAN DIE FROM
1. WARFARE
2. PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH
3. INFECTION
4. FAMINE AND FOOD SHORTAGES
NATURAL BELIEFS AND TREATMENTS
1. TREPHENING
  1. THIS IS THE ACTION OF CUTTING HOLES IN THE PATIENTS HEAD, TO RELEASE EVIL SPIRITS
2. MEDICINE MEN- THEY WERE ABLE TO DEAL WITH SPIRITS
3. WOMEN WERE IN CHARGE OF EVERYDAY HEALTH
  1. THEY KNEW ABOUT THE POWER OF HERBS
    1. USED A RANGE OF SIMPLE EFFECTIVE REMEDIES BASED ON OBSERVATION AND COMMON SENSE
SUPERNATURAL BELIEFS AND TREATMENTS
1. PREHISTORIC PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT THEY HAD THEIR OWN SPIRIT
  1. THESE EXPLAINED WHY YOU BECAME ILL
  2. ALSO IF YOUR SPIRIT WAS REMOVED FROM YOUR BODY YOU COULD BECOME ILL
    1. OR IF AN EVIL SPIRIT HAD ENTERED YOU WHEN SLEEPING
2. PREHISTORIC MAN WORE LUCKY CHARMS TO KEEP EVIL SPIRITS AWAY

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