Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Prehistoric Medicine
- How healthy were people?
- High death rate among babies
- Few lived over 40
- Healthy teeth (no sugar in diet)
- Women died young
- Child birth
- Heavy physical work
- What caused sickness?
- A lot of physical work
- Pregnancy dangerous
- Poor diet
- How did they treat illness and injuries?
- Cut: herbal remedy
- Worn charms to keep away evil spirits
- Headache: trephining- cutting hole in skull and removing piece of bone
- Who provided medical care?
- Medicine men (powerful members of tribe) cast out evil spirits
- Women (day to day health care)
- What did they think caused illness
- If spirits left your body, you would become ill
- Celts worshiped many spirits- many connected with nature e.g. water spirit