Health
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Medicine, Equipment and Doctors
The main medicine
that we know of that they used was cocaine but otherwise the Incas only used
the plants that were accessible for them. Animal bones and stone were used rather
than the proper surgical scalpels we have in our day and age including our
anaesthetic equipment that was invented many years forward of the empire’s existence. We
still have the tendency of giving up on someone’s life after we already know
that we’ve as much as we could which leads to death. If there was a curiosity
sparked for the priests and other Inca doctors there would’ve been an effort
put into healing others. Instead of requiring the doctors to be priests we now accept
anyone who qualifies, be a doctor.
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Funerals
Unlike how the funerals that the Incas were accustomed
to, we have a much quieter death ceremony but we still wear black just like how
the Incas did. Instead of mummifying the dead we have different ways for
different cultures. Some include burying them and cremating them. We have kept
and developed the knowledge of the Incas to save many more lives yet we still
have similarities to the Incas and their time.
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