• root of native flax • Kohu-Kohu leaves• Matoutou leaves• Kawa kawa root• Koromiko• Rimu trees• Fern root• Karaka leaves• Rewarewa• Bamboo shoots

• The first medical man to steep foot on NewZealand was Monkhouse captin cooks Sergeon.Monkhouse

became captain cooks sergen in 1769.!!.

• Dr.marshall was also one of the first medical men on newzealand

• Volcanic glass opened abscesses and removed neck glans

• The moari undoubtedly had a primitive medicine of there own

• Witch doctors were called tohungas

• Tannin was blowen on a wound or bleeding surface threw a 6 inch bamboo shoot

• Kohu kohu was swampy moss

• Bruises were treated by kawa kawa root

• Koromiko was used for treating diarrhoea

• Gum of the great rimu help skin diseases

Information on medicine in the 1840s

Medicine now !!• Liquid • Tablets • Oparations• Drugs • Injections • And many more

• Then ! Now!

Medicine has been a big part in keeping people alive and healthy. When people get sick they had medicine

to help them get better medicine saves millions peoples life and medicine has mad people safer!!

How it shaped identityit cured so many people from harmful disease and saved

many livesNow they can cure more people. .

liver, heart and kidney transplant weren't available 50 years ago.

People couldn’t work on peoples brain or heart . 50 years ago .

People with cancer can now be cured There is now x-ray machines

There is now injections to prevent people from getting diseases

There is now more equipment to help people when their sick

Plastic surgery first took place in india around 600bcHua to was the first doctor knowen to perform surgery

The first corneal transplant was performed as early as 1835 by a british army sergeon in india

The human body blood that is travilling through you veins and back is the colour blue not read!! But when your skin is cut it always appears red when your skin is cut because its upon

contact with oxagans atmosphere so it turns read

FACTS

Red blood cells are created inside the marrow of your bones

Viruses are usually 100 times smaller than bacteria

Around seven million people die each year from food posning

It takes your body over 12 hours before it has completely digested the food!!!

PICTURES

I chose to do my performance task on medicine because its changed a lot over the time of the treaty and its also interesting to know how its changed and its also good to know if they didn’t have hospitals and tablets and fancy medicine what they did use!!!