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1840 medicine

1840 medicine. Bamboo Matoutou Kormiko Fern roots Karaka leaves Kohu kohu. now. then. Tree’s. drugs. How has medicine changed???.

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1840 medicine

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  1. 1840 medicine • Bamboo • Matoutou • Kormiko • Fern roots • Karaka leaves • Kohukohu

  2. now then Tree’s drugs

  3. How has medicine changed??? • Medicine has been a big part in keeping people alive and healthy. When people got sick, people didn't know the cure on how to solve it all. But now peoplehave found out way more. The medicines that have been made have saved lotsof lives, our life spans are longer. We have scans and electrical machinery to help people and doctors to find out exactly what was wrong but they never used to have high tech devices in the 1840’s so they couldn’t find out what was fully wrong with people. • Medicines and devises we now have… • Liquid • Drugs • Scans • X-rays • Operations • Utensils • And more

  4. Info on medicine The Maori’s undoubtedly had a primitive medicine of their own Tannin was blown on to wounds or bleeding surface through 6 inch bamboo shoots as a hemostatic The first medical man to set foot on nz soil was Monkhouse( captain cooks surgeon) Volcanic glass was used to open abscesses and removed peoples neck glands! Obsidian ( volcanic glass )

  5. MONKHOUSE Became captain cook’s surgeon in 1769 Monkhouse was the first ever medical man to step foot on New Zealand soil.

  6. Bruises and abrasions fixed by a concoction of Kawa-Kawaroot– the pepper tree was recommended for toothache it was helped by chewing on it. • The root of the native flax, Kohu-Kohuleaves and Matoutouleaves, boiled together, strained and given doses of one ‘Pana’ shell ( shell fish) two table spoons twice a day.

  7. Facts! • natural hot sulphur-springs were used for lots of different diseases.

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