| 20,000 B.C. |
Bad Headache- Cave Men would cut a hole in the skull to let out evil
spirits.
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| 20,000 B.C.- 5,000 B.C. |
Ear Injury- People made an artificial earlobe using strips of flesh from
other parts of his/her body.
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| 1,000B.C.- 476 A.D. |
Drawing Blood- Romans would put upside down cups heated by lamps over the
person's cuts. When the cup cooled it sucked out blood. They did
this to get
poisons out of the body.
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| 3100 B.C.- 30 B.C. |
Loose Tooth- Egyptians would wrap fine gold wire around the loose tooth
and then fasten the wire to an adjacent tooth.
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| 3100 B.C.- 30 B.C. |
Fresh Breath- To sweeten foul breath, Egyptian men & women chewed
lumps of natron.
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| 3100 B.C.- 30 B.C. |
Mouth Rinses- They were made of frankincense, goose fat,
cumin, honey, and
water.
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| 3100 B.C.- 30 B.C. |
Toothache- Egyptians applied medicine and tried magic spells.
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| 3100 B.C.- 30 B.C. |
Infected Tooth- Egyptians drilled holes in the gum surrounding the tooth
to drain pus.
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| 1000B.C.- 476 A.D. |
Keep Clean- Romans rubbed oil and scraped it off with a tool with a curved
blade.
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| 500 B.C.- 1500 A.D. |
Wounds- Herbal remedies were often used to make pastes to put on wounds
and to make people vomit.
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| 400 B.C. |
If you had a pain of any kind, you chewed on the bark of
a willow tree.
Folks thought that the four main liquids in the body had to be
balanced in order for the person to be well. The liquids were: blood, phlegm,
black bile, and yellow bile. This did do one good thing for
medicine by helping doctors to understand that it was the body that
caused illness and not the gods or supernatural. |
| 1200s |
Medicine- Over the centuries, many Egyptian mummies were ground up and
used as medicine.
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| 1500s |
Renaissance wars began the use of firearms and more
serious injuries. There was no anesthetic for amputations and
they stuck a red-hot poker or iron on the wound to stop it from
bleeding. Sometimes they used hot oil instead.
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| Late 1700s |
Tuberculosis- Smoke dried cow dung. Inhale the fumes through a pipe.
Teething- Hang a foot of a mole around the neck of the teething infant. Apply
leaches behind ears. Cut the gums of the infant with a lancet to allow teeth to come
through easily. There was lots of blood loss.
Hospitals- Early hospitals were not really good. Rats ran over the floors &
beds. Some people got sicker at the hospital. |
| Mid 1750 |
No anesthesia for operations. No sleepy
feeling. Lots of pain!
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| 1850 |
During operations, doctors wore jackets that had blood
and pus on them from previous operations. If patients didn't die
from loss of blood then they would probably die of blood poisoning.
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