Medicine in the Pre-Historic Times
This year in history we are studying Medicine through time. We began
this course with pre - historic Medicine. In my essay I will explain
what pre - history is and the types of treatments and preventions of
diseases.
By pre - history, we mean history before the written word (up to
10,000 BC). Although we have a lot of information on pre - history it
is actually very difficult to find out about life in the pre -
historic times. This is because we do not have much evidence to work
with. Archaeologists have found clues which tell us something about
medicine in prehistoric times, but much of the evidence is missing and
some the evidence is hard to make sense of. There are two main ways of
finding out about pre - history. The first one is through
archaeological evidence such as left over bones, or preserved bones
and cave paintings. The other way of finding information on pre -
history is life style evidence. Life style evidence is things like
Aborigines and African tribes.
A type of archaeological evidence found is a skull with a hole in the
top. This is called Trepanning or trephining.
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Trepanning: an ancient human skull viewed from above. Note the large
hole!
What is trepanning / trephining? Trepanning is a technique of drilling
a hole through the skull. Trepanning was used as a way to cure head
aches. This was because people believed that if you had a headache you
would have a spirit stuck inside you and believed that if you put a
hole through the skull you would be releasing the spirit. The symptoms
before trepanation would be things like a headache, hallucinations,
visions or hearing voices in their head. These symptoms made people
believe that person with the illness had an evil spirit inside them so
they would drill a hole in the person's skull to "free" the spirit.
Even though people thought that this was a solution to their problems,
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