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There were a lot of community efforts in the Dark Ages, people who got sick weren't shunned or outcasted, they were taken by by their friends and family to a place of healing. Religion helped path a path for future medication, but people didn't put blind faith in Gods like they used to, instead, they thought that spiritual goodness was key to having a healthy body.
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The Jews used prayer in medicine, but say the physician as God's instrument, which caused them to invest in medical research.
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Physicians and the various "Gods of Healing" became linked. Medical treatments that he approaved of would be used as medical textbooks for generations to come.
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In the 5th century, people believed that God had the ability to heal warriors in their sleep after a deadly battle.
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They saw illnesses as a possession or cuse and mostly tried to cure it with spells and prayers. They also had bloodletting because they thought sickness was caused by bad blood, but bloodletting was practiced more in the Roman era,
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Doctors in Ancient Greece believed that the woman's womb was a separate entity and had a mind of its own. Doctors believed that you had an equal amount of black bile, blood, yellow bile, and phlegm, and if you had too much of one substance, you would feel ill. To solve this, they let leeches suck out extra blood from your body in an attempt to balance out the substances.
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There was a strong Greek influence on the arts of Roman Medicine, Surgical tools were crude verions of today's scalpels, forceps and catheters. You had no "pain-killers", and no disinfectant, you you would have to bear with the pain and possible infection, IF you survived the surgery.
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The Renaissance was a great period of intellectual growth and artistic development in Europe. Knowledge advanced through the scientific method. Information was obtained by means of an printing. The roots of scientific medicine were set.
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People believed that God implanted the soul 40 days after the creation. They also believed that the soul controlled the growth and development of the body itself.
They also believed that women were imperfect versions of men.
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Chinese people had used special medicines that came from certain herbs, which had been brought to Europe through trading. Bloodletting was still used in this century, except through leeches, where they were attached to the person's skin for a set time, in an attempt to suck the sickness out. Also, they believed that if your prayed enough, God would elevate the sickness from your body.
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Homepathy- a system of treatment involving a dosage of drugs who's effects resemble the sickness being treated, but not really. In 18th century London, the leading surgeons and doctors were all Scottish.
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In 1848, Buchan's Domestic Medicine helped people by showing the symptoms of small pox, scarlet fever, and measles.
Treatments relied on a "change of air", or a relocation of the sick person.
The number of dentists and doctors rose drastically in 1901, which helped save lives and treat patients.
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In 1900 - 1945, there were 2 world wars, medicine advanced majorly during this period of time in two sections, military and psychological. Military medicine was used in the treatment of wounds normal gained in battle, such as shrapnel cuts, bullet wounds, blood loss and missing limbs. Psychological medicine was advanced due to the high amounts of soldiers with PTSD, also known as "shell shock".
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In the year of 1945, the first vaccine for influenza is created. In 1964, and 1967, the vaccine for both measles and mumps are discovered.
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1992- first vaccine for Hepatitis A is discovered 2007- scientists figure out how to use skin cells to recreate stem cells
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Medicine was surrounded in superstition. The Roman Catholic Church dominated what direction the medical world went. Any views different from the established Roman Catholic Church view could steer them towards heresy with the punishments that were given. Much praying and fear arose from the black death and people feared medicine so they tended not to use it.
