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Evil spirits -
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Digitalis
Quinine
Belladonna and atropine
Morphine -
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First to keep health records
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They healed using the gods and medicine
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Physicians are priests -
Acupuncture was used with stone tools. Their methods developed to advanced practice. -
First to study disease and find out it was natural more than spiritual
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Sent medical equipment and physicians with their armies. First to organize medical care. -
Brought clean water to their city’s, built sewers to carry off waste, public baths with filtering -
Kept the ill in a room in their houses, public buildings for the care of sick were devolved soon after. -
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When Rome empire was conquered by Huns, medicine was stopped. Church believed life and death were in gods hands. Priests and monks didn’t care about bodily function.
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Primary treatment was prayer, medication consisted of herbal mixtures -
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Caused millions of deaths during this period. Bubonic plague killed 60 mil, other diseases including small pox, diphtheria, syphilis, tuberculosis, etc -
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Rebirth of learning, new scientific progress, many developments including universities/medical schools, dissection of body for study, printing press and books, etc -
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
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Discovered fallopian tubes of female anatomy
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Discovered tube leading from ear to throat
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Used knowledge to understand physiology. Was able to describe circulation of blood and pumping of heart.
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Invented the microscope, scarped his teeth and found bacteria that causes tooth decay
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Early farmacies
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Discoveries include bifocals, found colds that could be passed from person to person
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Students attended lectures in a classroom and a lab so they could observe patients bedsides
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Discovered the element of oxygen
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Discovered a method for vaccination for smallpox
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Invented the sethoscope
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Identified cause of childbed fever which was poor hygiene by physicians
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Attracted well educated and dedicated women to the Nightingale school of nursing
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Known as father of microbiology, he discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere, proved they caused diseases, discovered heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria.
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Discovered that some diseases were caused by things we can’t see, called viruses
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Used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs, became the first doctor that used antiseptic during surgery
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Developed aspesis developed a method to keep a area germ free before and after surgery ,
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Discovered many disease causing organisms, developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and also isolated bacerium that causes tuberculosis
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Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
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Discovered x-rays in 2895, took very first pic using x-rays of his wife’s hand
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Before anesthesia early physicians used to use herbs, hashish, and al honor to help relive pain.many patients died from shock and pain.
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Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria, discovery of penicillin and considered one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century.
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Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind, he determined that mind and Boyd work together
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds, kills deadly diseases
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Discovered the dead polio virus would cure poliomyelitis
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Started using a live polio virus vaccine which was more effective
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Discovered the structure of dna
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Performed the first successful heart transplant
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Separates Siamese twins and performs hemispherectomies
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People can have fully functioning limbs that they might have lost or were not born with
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Because there is always a need for organs, and for now are only option is transplant. According to science museums there are currently 7 organs being grown in a lab with success, including eyes, hearts, skin, bone, muscles, brains and livers.
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Surgies that were not once possible through conventional methods may be possible through cyber knife. Cyber knife is robot that kills tumors with a high dose of radiation. It includes,
No incisions
Minimally invasive
Less downtime after surgery
Less opportunity for infection
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In 2006, the FDA approved Atripla, which combined 3 antiretroviral drugs into 1. This drug decreased side effects and it was easier to stay on schedule. In 2013 another drug was introduced that combined 4 medication into one controlling the symptoms even better.
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If attended to quickly, a person having a hear attack can be successfully treated by busting the blockage that prevents blood from circulating with t-PA, a genetically engineered tissue plasminogen activator.
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Hemgenix is a new, one-time infusion for those with hemophilia B. This IV infusion, approved by the FDA in November 2022, consists of a viral vector carrying a gene for clotting Factor IX. The gene is expressed in the liver to producer Factor IX protein, which increases blood levels of Factor IX and effectively limits bleeding episodes associated with hemophilia B.