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Evil spirits
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They used herbs and plant and treatments.
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Digitalis is used in pill form or can be injected to help heart disease and it was also used during this time. Quinine comes from the bark of a tree and is used to treat fever and relive muscle spasms. Belladonna and atropine are made from a poisonous night shade plant, it helps muscle spasms. Morphine comes from the opium poppy it helps treat sever pain. Some of these plants mentioned are still used today in modern medicine.
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Health records: they were the first people to keep formal health Who are physicians?:The physicians were priests during this time How did they heal: With leaches and other techniques such as splinting fractures
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The ancient Chinese developed acupuncture by treating diseases with stone tools that later developed into modern acupuncture
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They did research too prove that illness was not alway spiritual and there were other natural causes to disease. The research they did eliminated superstitions. Many religious costumes did not allow bodies to be dissection. Hippocrates kept notes on many symptoms and with these nots he found that disease was natural and not caused by super natural forces. He created and oath of Hippocrates that is still used today.
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They build sewer and public baths with filters which was the first form of public sanitation Roman physicians kept a room in their homes to house the ill. This was the beginning of hospitals. They sent medical equipment with physicians to help heal wounded soldiers. physicians were also payed by the Roman government making this the first form of organized health care
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The study of disease stopped because priest and other religious figures believed that life and death was in gods hands.
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They treated it by praying and using herbal mixes
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Terrible epidemics cased many deaths at this time Ex:bubonic plague
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Medical schools were created and began reaching. Study the body by doing dissections. Books began to be used for research
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Recorded that anatomy of the body. Drawing -
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Early pharmacies that started in this time. -
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Was the inventor of the stethoscope
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Volunteered in hospitals and was the founder of modern nursing
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Father of microbiology discovered that tiny organisms are everywhere
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Some diseases are causes by micro organisms
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First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery
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Developed the asepsis
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He introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation in preventing the spread of disease
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Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. Discovered a treatment for syphilis.
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Discovered x-rays
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Loss of feeling or sensation
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Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria's.
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Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds.
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Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.
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Discovered that a live polio virus vaccine is more effective than a dead one.
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Discovered the molecular structure of DNA. And made a model
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Preformed the first successful heart transplant.
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Separates Siamese twins
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-the ability to use noninvasive techniques for diagnosis
- the ability to reattach severed body parts
- the advancement in caring for the unborn fetus
- the ability to transplant organs for a donor to a recipient
- the possibility of eliminating disabling disease through genetic reasearch