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