Prehistoric Medicine

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

Resource summary

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