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mullpres

Inca Encyclopedia Block C [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Medicine - 2 views

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encyclopedia block licensed medicine inca

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  • he Inca were very skillful people in medicine. The Incas believed that being sick was either a punishment from the gods or evil magic. The only way to cure the sickness was to go to a doctor or by magic. Every year disease and evil would be banished from Cuzco during the Situa Festival. The Situa Festival consisted of several day
  • The Inca medicine was amazing. The Inca doctors were consistently finding new herbs, minerals and trying new remedies and improving the old ones. The Inca doctors were in search for many new answers for great medical development and the healing power of the Inca medicine was extraordinary. As well as the religion and magical spells had a great part of treatment, which helped the patient believe he/she was cured. The fact that the person believed that they were cured freed endorphins in the blood stream, helping the body heal. 
brenden2014

Mayan Civilization, Ruins and Culture in Central America - 0 views

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  • Mayan Medicine Mayan culture made adept use of the natural environment in Central America to maintain health and treat illnesses.  Traditional Mayan medicine is said to employ native plants to treat malaria and manage diabetes, among many other uses.
  • crasmussen78 on 05 Sep 13
     
    Mayan Medicine Mayan culture made adept use of the natural environment in Central America to maintain health and treat illnesses.  Traditional Mayan medicine is said to employ native plants to treat malaria and manage diabetes, among many other uses.
  • jfelix2019 on 05 Sep 13
     
    medicine
brenden2014

Maya Medicine - 0 views

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maya medicine

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  • Three clinical diseases, pinta, leishmaniasis, and yellow fever, and several psychiatric syndromes were described, Athletes' foot and diarrhea were very common and fast cured with herbal medicine.
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  • The ancient Maya  perceived health as “balance”, whereas illness and disease were “imbalance”. Balance, however, was influenced by season and varied by age, gender, personality and exposure to environmental temperature extremes. A central medical-related theme held that balance was effected favorably or adversely by diet.
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  • Three clinical diseases, pinta, leishmaniasis, and yellow fever, and several psychiatric syndromes were described, Athletes' foot and diarrhea were very common and fast cured with herbal medicin
  • The Mayan culture also was preoccupied with science, art, government, marketing, philosophy, letters and health.
  • cities or the rituals of blood sacrifice by the leader/kings or priesthood.
  • aobrecht on 04 Sep 13
     
    Maya medical dieases
jfelix2019

Book Review - NEJM - 1 views

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Aztecs

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  • Pre-Columbian America was relatively free of infectious diseases
  • , except for treponemal infections, probably including syphilis. The most common Aztec diseases appear to have been respiratory and gastrointestinal infections
  • origin of illnesses
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  • magical rituals to treat them
  • to the healing god
  • coronary-bypass surgery in scientific medicine
  • Greek medicine
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  • diseases appear to have been respiratory and gastrointestinal infections.
  • illnesses
  • and they used religious and magical rituals to treat them
  • including syphilis
  • treponemal infections,
  • probably
  • s to the healing god
  • coronary-bypass surgery in scientific medicine
  • modern Mexican folk medicine
briantrevino

Health Issues - Ancient Maya - 0 views

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  • The Maya thought that being sick was a punishment for a mistake or transgression.
  • Abdominal Pain
  • . Medicine Men relied a lot on what colour the plant was for what it was going to be able to cure e.g. Red leaves and plants for problems categorized with blood.
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  • ; Asthma; Colds; Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Diseases
  • of Women;
  • Bowel Complaints
  • Hair and Disease of the
  • Chills and Fever;
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
  • Vertigo
  • Insomnia; Dislocations and Complaints of the Bones;
  • ; Fainting and Unconsciousness
  • Depression,
  • Scalp;
  • Insanity;
  • Poisoning
  • Skin Diseases,
  • Cancer and Tumour's;
  • Sunstroke
  • Ruptures.
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
  • The Maya thought that being sick was a punishment for a mistake or transgression.
  • Medicine Men relied a lot on what colour the plant was for what it was going to be able to cure e.g. Red leaves and plants for problems categorized with blood
  • The average life expectancy for a Mayan man was between 50-55 and for Women was between 55-60. These are almost all of the health problems the Maya had :
  • Aches and Pains
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  • Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Disease of the Lungs and Breathing Passages
  • Skin Disease
  • Headache; Hiccough; Inflammation
  • yellow fever.
  • sic way of purification was the sweat bath.
  • he most ba
  • Jaundice;
  • Sweating; Teeth and Gums; Urine (bladder problems); Wounds, Cuts, Bruises, and
  • The Maya related sickness with being possessed of their soul by supernatural beings.
  • being hurt or sick was just as bad as having a criminal record.
  • Deena Hayes on 04 Sep 13
     
    The main health problem that the Maya's had was the "Yellow Fever"
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  • preep2019 on 05 Sep 13
     
    Good Health Issues
  • jo873080 on 05 Sep 13
     
    Health Concerns
  • briantrevino on 05 Sep 13
     
    The Maya related sickness with being possessed of their soul by supernatural beings.  
aobrecht

Inca Medicine ~ IACES News about Sciences and Health Specialities - 0 views

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  • sadness, melancholy, mentally illnesses, severe afflictions of behavior, anger, cowardice, regret, anxiety, grief, pathological fear, dementia, severe psychotic disorders like madness, insanity, idiocy and hysteria; Just to mention a few of them.
tjmumm10

How the Aztecs cared for their diseases - 0 views

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how the aztec cared for their diseases

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  • plants and herbal medicines
  • that were to be found.
  • its own special diseases, and syphilis came supposedly from the New World.
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  • treated by imploring the gods and using magical remedies, the Aztecs also had knowledge based on research and experience.
  • Among other things these gardens were used for medical research;
  • Aztec medical knowledge.
  • “laudable pus”
  • ‘In my own studies (Ortiz de Montellano 1990), I have shown that the Aztecs could produce the physiological effects (vomiting, diaphoresis, etc.)
  • that their ideas about the cause and cure of disease
  • folk medicines, in animal or laboratory tests, and even in clinical trials.
jfelix2019

Maya medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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maya

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  • the Maya equated sickness with the captivity of one’s soul by supernatural beings, angered by some perceived misbehavior
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    sickness
brenden2014

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maya medicine and Issues

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  • A hemorrhagic fever, which was called Cocoliztli,
  • Two epidemics of Cocoliztli, occurring in 1545 and 1576 respectively, killed a total of 13 million people.
  • Symptoms ranged from headache and fever to dementia, nodule formation, and bleeding from all orifices before eventual death. Interestingly, the more severe symptoms of Cocoliztli only affected the native inhabitants of Mesoamerica;
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  • here is no evidence supporting any single explanation for this dramatic population loss. The severe decrease may have been caused by decline in agriculture, social or political issues, or natural causes such as drought to name a few. Whatever the cause, it is certain that the Maya civilization had collapsed.
  • While there are obvious differences between the collapses during the Terminal Classic Period and the sixteenth century, both occurred during similar environmental conditions. Evidence indicates that during the years before both population declines, the region was facing a period of severe drought. As indicated by data from tree rings, a long drought happened from AD 700 to AD 900 that stretched as far north as the Southwestern United States
  • A hemorrhagic fever, which was called Cocoliztli,
  • Two epidemics of Cocoliztli, occurring in 1545 and 1576 respectively, killed a total of 13 million people.
  • Cocoliztli outbreaks
  • As is widely known, the Mayan people saw a significant loss in population starting around AD 770. There is no conclusive evidence indicating one specific cause of this collapse; most
  • likely, it was a combination of several contributing factors. Centuries later, Mesoamerica faced another widespread population decline in the 1500s. Again, it is nearly impossible t
  • pinpoint what caused this occurrence. The data indicate that disease may have been a causative factor in the Maya collapse, though the identity of the disease itself is a mystery
  • due to the lack of preserved human remains.
  • preep2019 on 04 Sep 13
     
    Tells about a fever that caused many deaths. 
tklinkefus

Climate, Not Spaniards, Brought Diseases That Killed Aztecs - The Crux | DiscoverMagazi... - 0 views

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climate diseases killed aztecs medicine

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  • Acuna-Soto also had access to exhaustive diaries kept by Francisco Hernandez, the surgeon general of New Spain who witnessed the second catastrophic epidemic in 1576.
  • He described a highly contagious and lethal scourge that killed within a few days, causing raging fevers, jaundice, tremors, dysentery, abdominal and chest pains, enormous thirst, delirium and seizures.
  • hemorrhagic fever
andsche

Aztecs - 0 views

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Aztec Medicine

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bwagner10

Aztec Medicine - Aztecs of Mexico, history - 0 views

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Aztec Health

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  • . The Aztec had a well established birth sign structure, much like modern astrology. Babies born during certain days were expected to develop into sickly children and die early of disease.
  • jfelix2019 on 04 Sep 13
     
    sickly children
brenden2014

Aztec Medicine - Aztecs of Mexico, history - 0 views

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  • The Mexica people were neurotic.
  • Depression
tklinkefus

What led to the Mayans collapse? | In a Realm of my Own - 0 views

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medicine mayan maya

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  • Peregrinus maidis
  • The insect, Peregrinus maidis, is proposed to have been blown great distances and is known to wipe out entire crops (Brewbaker 1979). It is only deadly in places where maize is cultivated all year long. The spreading of the maize mosaic virus (MMV) can be noted by monumental date inscriptions from southern lowlands Mayan centres (Brewbaker 1979). The last inscribed date at the site known as Palenque comes in the year 799 while on the other hand; the final date at Piedras Negras comes in the year 795 A.D. (Brewbaker 1979).
  • In the humidity of tropical areas, the cultivation of maize is never free from pests and crop diseases. Pests include borers, worms of all natures and the weevils who harm stored grains (Brewbaker 1979). On the other hand, viruses and diseases that negatively affect the harvest include rusts, blights, stalk and ear rots and downy mildews (Brewbaker 1979).
klefeber

Aztec medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • the Aztec system recognised three main causes of illness and injuries—supernatural causes involving the displeasure of the gods or excess and imbalance with the supernatural and natural worlds, magical causes involving malevolent curses and sorcerers (a tlacatecolotl in Nahuatl),
  • and natural or practical causes. Establishing a treatment for any given ailment depended first upon determining the nature of its cause.
  • jfelix2019 on 04 Sep 13
     
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