Imagine that you are in a world where nothing yet is to be invented, you are still wearing animal skin, and you live in places like caves or dens. You have your own food and you barely know how to speak other than grunts. Now that you have that image in your head, what do you think of? If you think of aliens on Mars, then you are wrong and need to try a little harder. If you thought about cavemen, then you are on the right path. Cavemen theoretically lived that way in a time period called the PREHISTORIC TIMES. This is a time period where it was "medicine started". Some might ask, "You mean the aspirin I take for those MASSIVE headaches?" The answer to that is no. Based on the article written by Christian Nordquist on the website, Medicalnewstoday.org, there was a theory that the only medicine they had were herbs, like Mallow (cleans out the colon) and Yarrow (reduces blood lose from injuries). The theory also states that caveman had witch doctors who would cast spells with their "supernatural powers" to make patients healthier. Sometimes they use a procedure we know today as trepanning. For readers who do not know what trepanning is, it is where the doctors would drill holes into a person's skull to "let the evil spirits out". How painful would that be? Now that we know what was thought of the Prehistoric times when it came to medicine, what would you do to survive during as a caveman. Would you be the driller or have the drilling? Before I go, if you have noticed I have said that this has theorized a lot. We do not have any documents during this time, so we can only go based on the studies in the past. Well this adventure through the cavemen period of medicine. Literally!
The sites that need to be cited:
Medicalnewstoday.com
Knowitall.org
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