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Ancient Medicine
  •   Reflected the apparent belief that disease arose:
    - Vindictive or disagreeing deities
    - Personal moral failure (punishment)
    - Community's failure to act in a specific or desired manner.

  •   The primary focus of Medicine in antiquity was:
    - Respiratory
    - Digestive
    - Infections
    - Gynecologic disorders

  •   Life expectancy was low:
    - Cancer and degenerative diseases were not relevant
Author: Dr. Scott R. Schell, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact: Russell Fielding / rtfield@ufl.edu
Version: Produced by the Office of Medical Informatics
Copyright: 1998 by the University of Florida
Location: http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/other/profmed/slides/pm021599/index.html
Created: February 23, 1999 Modified: February 25, 1999
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