Post by Mr Modica on Sept 8, 2013 17:55:09 GMT
Note: I have no problem with this being printed off and kept or added to your notes. I DO have a problem with people copying and pasting this for their homework. Your teacher WILL notice. You have been warned.
Medicine from ‘before written records’. Most of the evidence comes from cave paintings and the bones of the people who lived then.
The people living in this time had a healthy diet and were spending their lives following their food supply. When they began to settle, they founded farms.
Life spans were short, few people lived past 40. There is evidence in bones of people suffering arthritis and of broken bones being set with wood splints covered in mud. Infection in open wounds would have been a problem and there was no way of sealing deep wounds.
Prehistoric people would have a small amount of knowledge of the inside of the body from injuries caused when hunting and from butchering animals.
Cause of disease was believed to be evil spirits living inside the head. They used trepanning (removing a piece of the skull with a flint) to let the evil spirits out. Often the piece of bone was tied around the neck as a lucky charm. Some people must have survived trepanning because the hole in the skull started to seal.
Illness was treated by witch doctors/medicine men. They treated people with herbs, magic and chanting to try to scare the evil spirits away.
Thanks to Miss Webster
Medicine from ‘before written records’. Most of the evidence comes from cave paintings and the bones of the people who lived then.
The people living in this time had a healthy diet and were spending their lives following their food supply. When they began to settle, they founded farms.
Life spans were short, few people lived past 40. There is evidence in bones of people suffering arthritis and of broken bones being set with wood splints covered in mud. Infection in open wounds would have been a problem and there was no way of sealing deep wounds.
Prehistoric people would have a small amount of knowledge of the inside of the body from injuries caused when hunting and from butchering animals.
Cause of disease was believed to be evil spirits living inside the head. They used trepanning (removing a piece of the skull with a flint) to let the evil spirits out. Often the piece of bone was tied around the neck as a lucky charm. Some people must have survived trepanning because the hole in the skull started to seal.
Illness was treated by witch doctors/medicine men. They treated people with herbs, magic and chanting to try to scare the evil spirits away.
Thanks to Miss Webster