EVOLUTION OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY Flashcards
Immersion in cool water and applying mud to irritated areas
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
Sucking stings
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
Licking Wounds
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
Exerting pressure on wounds to stop bleeding
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
What do you call the treatment is intertwined with religion and magic
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
Tribal Healers
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
Sucking, bleeding, fumigating, steam baths, medicinal herbs
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
Seat of life
Liver
Disease is a divine punishment or mark of sin
Ancient Hebrews
Disease was considered an imbalance of the four humors of the body: pleghm, blood, yellow, bile
4th Century Hebrews
Mesopotamians
Prehistoric and Ancient Medicine
Embalming
Ancient Egypt
Linked anatomy and physiology with theology
Ancient Egypt
Pills, cake suppositories, enemas, ointments, drops, gargles, fumigation and baths
Ancient Egypt
Drugs were made from vegetable, mineral and animal substances and imported materials such as saffron, cinnamon, and perfumes, spices, sandalwood, gums, antominy
Ancient Egypt
Isis
Healing goddess
Hathor
mistress of heaven and protector of women during childbirth
Keket
Fertility?
Life is eternal cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction
Ancient India
Detected diabetes by the sweetness of urine
Ancient India
Treated snakebites by appying torniquets
Ancient India
Surgery of nose, earlobes, harelips, and hernias
Ancient India
Perform cesarian sections
Ancient India
Balance of yin and yang
Harmony