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Study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years.
Medicine was practiced only in monasteries and convents.
Herbal remedies.
Many plagues and epidemics - bubonic, small pox, diptheria, syphilis, tuberculosis -
No licensing, so anyone could be a healer.
Medicine dominated by ideas of Galen, ancient Greek physician (fire, water, air, earth/blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile).
When someone fell ill, disease, fraud, and demonic possession were blamed. Used animal parts and magic symbols and amulets to treat.
Few recognized link between hygiene and health.
1000-school of medicine, Italy
1200-strict measures for public hygiene.
1300-dissection of human corpse.
1400-recorded regulations for midwives -
Study of medical science stopped for over 1000 years.
Medicine was practiced only in monasteries and convents.
Herbal remedies.
Many plagues and epidemics - bubonic, small pox, diptheria, syphilis, tuberculosis -
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Columbus discovers America
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Rebirth of Science.
Construction of medical schools.
Study of the body by dissection was accepted.
Physician prescribed; apothecary dispensed.
Cautery replaced by ligatures and dressings.
1500-study of human anatomy published
1600-blood circulation described, bacteria discovered.
1700-law requiring license, obstetrics established, vaccine for ssmall pox -
Vesalius and Da Vinci dissect bodies and made first anatomical drawings.
Harvey- describe blood circulation and heart pumping.
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Laennec invents stethoscope.
Franklin invents bifocals and colds are contagious. -
United States founded, gain independence
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Developed by Edward Jenner.
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Some say he died from bloodletting during his last illness. Open vein to let out poisons in body.
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Joesph Lister, first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection.
Ignans Semmelweiss washes hands before delivering babies, after working with cadavers.
Louis Pasteur, heating milk prevents bacteria growth (pasteurization).
Sigmund Freud, psychology, effects unconcious has on body.
Inject opium, morphine, heroin, cocain(addiction).
Major blood types(O,A,B,AB)
Diagnostic tools-microscopes, thermometer, x-rays -
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First practical anesthetic introduced
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Elizabeth Blackwell.
Inspired Nightingale to pursue nursing. -
Florence Nightingale.
Crimean War.
Made nursing an honorable profession. -
Introduced by Koch.
Robert Koch, disease causing organisms (anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera). Father of Microbiology. -
Clara Barton.
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Discovered by Pastuer.
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Wilhelm Roentgen.
Allow doctors to see inside the body to diagnose. -
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Isolated by Marie Curie
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Alexander Fleming.
Considered most important discover of the 20th Century. -
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Jonas Salk.
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Albert Sabin.
More effective than Salk's vaccine. -
Introduced.
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Frist successful heart transplant.
Christian Bernard. -
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Louise Brown in born.
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First recognized by Centers for Disease Control and Preventions
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First FDA-approved in US.
Insert genes into cells or tissues to treat diseases, particularlly heredity diseases. -
Advanced Body Imaging - diagnostic and screening medical procedures.
Gene Mapping - mapping genes to specific locations of chromosomes. Helps understand genetic diseases.
Microsurgeries - surgery on minute body structures with microscopes and micromanipulators.
Advances in Scope Surgeries - no need to make a large incision. -
Tissue cloning.
First mammal to be cloned.
