• • • Medicine and Surgery was very important to the Inca people because it was a way they could heal sicknesses, fix broken bones, head injuries, brain swelling, and some even claim it helped with mental illnesses.  They even were thought to have better survival rates than our Civil War doctors.

Medicine was discovered by the knowledge they already had in plants and healing. Surgery was found out by experimenting and curiosity on if they could fix their peoples head injuries.

• • • Medicine had an impact on the Incas in a good way, it helped them learn how to cure sicknesses, illnesses, and pains. Surgery however was a great improvement it helped in so many ways, but it did have negative effects. Way back then they had no clue about bacteria or infection or how to clean their tools to prevent this, so it increased their chances of infection. 

• • • Knowledge of medicine was passed down to their kids and grand kids, so it grew throughout the centuries and later grew to other civilizations. By expanding to others it helped the tribes that had no clue about medicine or how to perform surgery to now know how to do surgeries and how to make medicines remedies and what plants work and which ones they should avoid using. So the Incas knowledge helped their future people, other tribes, and even us today. We still use some of the medical remedies that they used and we wouldn't have surgery's without them if they hadn't discovered how to do it.

Another important detail is their tools they used and the types of plants they used to cure illnesses and perform their surgeries. They have even found a man that was believed to have been one of the surgeons and medicine dealer, he was found buried with his tools that he used to perform these surgeries.  A whole suite of surgical tools was found wrapped in a bundle beside a long-dead surgeon from the Inca time. The Archaeologist found dozens of wooden handled bronze awls, needles, & knives in various sizes. Most of the knives were single-edged blades, but one looked different than the others. The semicircular blade, called a tumi, was a representative of both surgery and ritual sacrifices for the Sican, their predecessors the Moche, then later the Inca. Ritual tumis were large and detailed, but anicent surgeons used smaller more utilitarian versions for trepanation.