ANCIENT MEDICINE 

this book is about how medicine  was about 2 million years ago,their medicine was not very effective and people lived up to 35 years of age,women had shorter lives because the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth. The main causes of death were warfare,harsh climates and pood food.
People used local plants as the first drugs,to soothe pain or help curts to heal.
By studying their bones scientists can see how ancient people migth have been affected by disease or injury.
Civilization also helped to cause the first epidemics of disease as towns grew, more people lived close to each other and travelers carried infections from one place to another.


The desert also caused people to get sick since they breathed fine sand that lodged inn their lungs.
The most famous egyptian doctor was treated as a god after his death this recognition is due to his excellent work and he was best know for his pioneering medical work.
The earliest doctors were also priests or sorcerers.
The doctors used minerals and plants and animal extracts to cure many diseases.
 
AT THAT TIME THEY ALSO RECOMMENDED QUARANTINE WHEN SOMEONE WAS SICK,UNLIKE QUARANTINE TODAY,THAT DID LAST 40 DAYS AND THEN PEOPLE WERE EXAMINED BY A PRIEST. IF THEY NO LONGER HAD THE INFECTION THEY COUOLD BE FREE BUT IF THEY STILL HAD THIS INFECTION THEY WOULD HAVE TO STAY ANOTHER SEVEN DAYS WITHOUT LEAVING