120 Questions To Know Flashcards
What was miasma?
Bad air that caused disease
What is anatomy
Knowledge of the body
What is public health?
The health of the entire population
Why do we know so little about prehistoric people?
They didn’t write things down (keep records)
Who is the first person people turn to for medical treatment that has been the same throughout history?
Women, mother
Which came first Greek or Egyptian?
Egyptian
What does nomadic mean?
They move around
What effect did being nomadic have on public health?
They didn’t care about it as they could move easily
Who treated the sick in prehistoric times?
Medicine man
What is trepanning?
Drilling into the cranium to release headaches, or bad spirits
What is a rational cure the prehistoric people used?
Set broken bones using sticks and mud