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brenden2014

Maya Medicine - 0 views

  • 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.
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    Maya medical dieases
mullpres

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

  • 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. 
tjmumm10

How the Aztecs cared for their diseases - 0 views

  • 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.
brenden2014

Mayan Decline :: The Mayan Kingdom - 0 views

  • The causes for the Maya's decline are numerous, but one of the central causes is that the demands they placed upon their environment grew beyond the capacity of the land. At it's peak, there were about 15 million people occupying the Mayan world. Over-population of Mayan metropolises are suspected to have gone beyond levels that the Mayan political and social networks were able to support, resulting in social unrest and revolution. Frequent skirmishes by warring clans, such as the Toltec invasion of Chichen Itza, are suspected to have forced the Mayan populace to flee their cities. Recent studies have discovered evidenc
  • of severe droughts, deforestation, and a decline in large game animals that began around 800 A.D., coinciding with a sharp drop in new construction. Human bones found from this time show signs of severe malnutrition, which would have been a driving factor behind raids. While Maya civilization did go through a brief renaissance after this period, ongoing environmental constraints played a large role in their eventual decline.
mboardman

4 Possible Reasons For The Collapse of the Mayan Civilization - 0 views

  • Most recently, scientists have turned their work towards the possibility of disease. The climate was humid and would have supported a host of parasitic activity. As the Mayan civilization grew and spread, disturbances would have occurred which could have placed the people in contact with parasites that would promote disease and death. If this were the case no member of the Mayans would have been spared. As with many diseases that attacked the human body, death can be a slow process dependent upon the strength and health of the individual attacked.
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derecw21

European diseases - 0 views

  • European Diseases - The Spaniards carried diseases that killed the Aztecs. As the Aztecs and the Spaniards fought in Tenochtitlan, the small pox epidemic began to kill the people. The Aztecs had no immunities to any of the European diseases. In 1518 there were about 25 million Mexicans. Fifty years later, less than 3 million Native Americans survived.
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      Wow that is interesting, I can't believe that small pox killed the Aztec's and so many of them. That also reminds me of Spanish wars the Americans have been in and many got killed from small pox. Looks like Spanish could have trouble in years of big small pox breakdowns.
bwagner10

Aztec Medicine - Aztecs of Mexico, history - 0 views

  • . 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.
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    sickly children
brenden2014

Aztec Medicine - Aztecs of Mexico, history - 0 views

  • The Mexica people were neurotic.
  • Depression
kastgre19

Mayan information - 0 views

  • bubonic plague
  • a combination of both malaria and yellow fever epidemics
  • both of these epidemics are foreign to the Mayan culture
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  • the development of chronic warfare caused a breakdown in their fragile agriculture system. Imagine you were a farmer at the city-state of Uaxactun and you are at war with Tikal. Now, are you going to stay on your farm with no military protection? Of course not, you will move as fast as you can into the protection of the city walls. In the meantime your field becomes overgrown and no food can be produced. So we see cases of extreme food shortages that cannot be compensated for causing the demise of the Mayan culture.
kastgre19

Inca Food - 0 views

  • guinea pig which were often cooked by stuffing hot stones inside them
  • . The entrails would often be used as an ingredient in soups along with potatoes, or made into a sauce.
johansen19

An Incan Feast Before Death | Science/AAAS | News - 0 views

  • Now, a chemical analysis of four Incan mummies finds that children were fattened before being sacrificed
  • Andes have found shrines containing the frozen, mummified bodies of children adorned with necklaces, headdresses, and bracelets.
  • Others appear to have been left to die in the cold.
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  • 15-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy, and a 6-year-old dubbed Lightning Girl because her corpse had been struck by lightning.
  • researchers found more sacrificed children on top of Argentina's Llullaillaco volcano: a
  • 15-year-old girl, a 7-
culplev

Aztecs for Kids - Quick History of the Aztec People - 0 views

  • When the Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico, other tribes were already in residence. They had already taken the best land. The Aztecs had to make due with the swampy shores of Lake Texcoco. 
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