Health

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Knowledge and Technique

There have been several major changes since the times of the Incan Empire. Speaking in the specifics of health, we now have the proper knowledge, medicine and equipment compared to what the Incas had in their time. Their knowledge was rather small since they didn’t come across many diseases and they didn’t exactly communicate with other civilizations to learn about other illnesses. The techniques that the Incas used were very old and not as effected as what we do in our time. An example would be of how we cure the mentally ill. The Incas did many things that link to their religion like rituals to get rid of depression and other psychological problems where as we have therapists who communicate and use different treatments for each patient’s problems.

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.

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.