Prehistoric Medicine

Question 1

What were the Natural Treatments during Prehistoric times?

Answer 1

• Trephining

- Medicine men

Question 2

What was Trephining ?

Answer 2

Drilling holes into people’s heads to ward off evil spirits and cure them from illness

Question 3

What did Medicine Men do/ Where were they from?

Answer 3

They would deal with evil spirits by putting charms and amulets around people’s necks.

They were people from Prehistoric tribes

Question 4

Name a Supernatural Belief during the Prehistoric time period

Answer 4

• People believed spirits had left the body and therefore people became ill.

Question 5

Name two Supernatural ways to Treat patients?

Answer 5

• Prehistoric men worse charms and amulets to ward off evil spirits
• Medicine men would look for the pointing stick they believed removed your spirit and then chuck it into water to set spirit free

Question 6

What did prehistoric people die from?

Answer 6

Childbirth

Warfare

Infection

Famine + food shortages

Question 7

How did prehistoric people keep healthy?

Answer 7

They lived simple lives

They buried their poo far from their homes

There was no such thing as junk food, smoking, drugs etc

Human’s had less contact with one another

Question 8

How do we know about trephining?

Answer 8

because of skeletal remains and aboriginal tribes