Religion played an important role in health care. A common belief was that illness and disease were punishments from the gods.
What is the Primitive Times?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What is HIPAA?
Holes in the skull used as treatment of insanity and epilepsy
What is Trepanation?
The study of medicine stopped after the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is the Dark Ages?
76 years
What is the life expectancy in 2021?
The use of selected fragrances to alter mood and restore the mind, body and spirit.
What is aromatherapy?
This period is often referred to as the "rebirth of science of medicine."
What is the Renaissance?
Opening the body to observe its structure and function
What is Dissection?
Procedure used as part of the Humoral theory for the treatment of excess Yellow and Black Bile
What are laxatives and emetics?
A major epidemic of bubonic plague killed almost 75% of the population of Europe and Asia.
What is the Middle Ages?
What is the Cloaca Maxima?
Ancient Chinese therapy that involves the insertion of very thin needles into specific points along the meridians in the body to stimulate and balance the flow of energy.
What is acupuncture?
This individual Stressed that a good diet , fresh air, cleanliness and exercise would help the body heal itself
Who is Hippocrates?
Who is Ben Carson?
Stressed by Ignaz Semmelweis - this is known as the single best method of infection control.
What is Handwashing?