Prehistoric Medicine

A time before history

A time before written records

A time when writing first started

Archaeologist

Aromatherapist

Cave Paintings

Written records

Aboriginal Culture

Archaeopathology

In spiritual Worlds, which where the reason for illness and cures

Evil spirits where the reason for illness

Trephinning helped headaches, and other head injuries

Gods were the reason for disease

People died because of their sins

To keep health they had to carry huge logs

In spiritual Worlds, which where the reason for illness and cures

Evil spirits where the reason for illness

Trephinning helped headaches, and other head injuries

Gods were the reason for disease

People died because of their sins

To keep health they had to carry huge logs

Excavations of ancient burials and tombs tell us that their ideas on anatomy where not right in more than one way, so that hindered the production of Prehistoric medicine

Because there was no writing, so that obviously hindered any progress

Because people didn't use plants to try to cure disease at all, they only prayed to God, which obviously hindered medicine

People travelling mostly in the summer and not in the winter, so idea where only spread here and there and people tend to get more ill in the winter, so that would have made the progress in medicine slow because it meant that people couldn't really share ideas in the winter as well as they could in the summer.