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Evil Spirits -
Tribal ceremonies to rid evil spirits -
Digitalis - treats heart conditions
Quinine - controls fever, relieves muscle spasms and helps prevent malaria.
Belladonna and atropine - relieve muscle spasm, and GI pain
Morphine - helps prevent severe pain -
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They were the first people to keep accurate health records. Priest acted as physicians, and the people would heal by using medicine to heal disease, and did bloodletting with the use of leeches. -
They were the first to use primitive acupuncture therapies. Their methods eventually developed and are still used today. -
They were the first to believe that diseases may have natural, rather than spiritual, causes.
Their religion did not allow them to dissect.
He was the father of medicine -
They brought clean water to their cities through water ways.
They sent medical equipment and physicians to their armies.
Roman physicians kept a room in their house for the ill, and that was the beginning of hospitals. -
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The church believed that life and death was in gods hands. -
The primary treatment was prayer -
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Caused millions of deaths -
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Universities - used for medical research
Dissection - They accepted the dissection of the body
Books - the greater access to knowledge from research -
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
Discovered the fallopian tube -
Discovered the Eustachian tube -
Used his knowledge to understand physiology -
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries were engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices form the East. -
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Discovered bifocals, and he found colds could be passed from person to person. -
Attended lectures in the classroom and observed patients at the bedside. -
Discovered the element oxygen -
Discovered a method of vaccination -
Invented the stethoscope -
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Identified the sauce of childbed fever -
Saved a lot of people in the war -
Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere -
Discovered some diseases cannons be seen with a microscope -
Used carbolic acids used on wounds -
Developed asepsis -
Discovered many disease causing organisms -
Discovered the effect of medicine on diseases causing organisms -
Discovered x-rays -
Early physicians used herbs, alcohol and hashish to relieve the pain -
Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria -
Discovered the conscious and unconscious -
Discovered sulfonamide -
Discovered that the dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Used a live polio virus vaccine. -
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins -
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People without limbs now have the opportunity to replace them with a fully functional device -
This minimally invasive surgery is done through one or more small incisions using small tubes and tiny cameras and instruments. -
Over 200 hospitals in the United States are now using VR to help patients in a number of ways -
In 2014, the company Organovo offered the first commercially available 3D-bioprinted human livers and kidneys -
resources are being devoted to growing artificial organs in labs.