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Illnesses and diseases were caused by supernatural spirits. -
They would treat these people by using herbs plants and medicines. -
The medicine that is currently being used today are generally pills where back in the day it was herbs. There is also in injections to treat heart condition.
Digitalis= heart medicine
Quinine=Controls fever relives muscle spasms
Belladonna and atropine= made from poisonous nightshade plant helps with pain
Morphine= helps with serve pain -
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The Egyptians were the earliest people to keep accurate records. The physicians were the persist they used medicine to heal diseases. They also would use leeches to drain some of their blood as a healing process. -
They would use stone tools for acupuncture therapies. -
Ancient Greeks thought of healing people as an art. They had sacred temples of healing. They were the first to study the difference between a natural illness vs a spiritual illness. They kept records on this to figure out how they were supposed to heal these people based on how they got their illness. Dissections were not allowed. Hippocrates the father of knowledge did many observations on the human body. He took many notes on signs and symptoms of diseases. He took an oath still used today. -
Their sanitation systems were using something called a death mask. It protected them from infection and bad odors. The first to have organized medical care. Their hospital was in physicians homes they had to have a room with all their tools to help people. -
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1,000 years medicine was practiced on convents and monasteries. The church believed you were in gods hands and they shouldn’t help you with medicine. -
Their main source of treatment was praying and herbal mixtures. -
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This caused millions of deaths to happen. The plague killed tons of people. There was also smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. These obviously are not life threatening like they were back then because these now can be treasured by vaccines. -
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During the renaissance period there were new developments.
There were universities for medical schools. Now they allowed people to dissect a body for study purposes. The invention of the printing press let people publish their knowledge. This let other people learn and of course spread the word of new findings. -
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Leonardo studied and recorded the human body. He created many sculptures of the human body. He showed all the small details like veins and rolls, and muscles. He was an amazing artist that helped out doctors. -
Discovered the Fallopian tubes for the female anatomy. -
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat. It’s called the Eustachian tube. -
Using his knowledge he was able to describe the circulation of blood, and the pumping of the heart. -
Invented the microscope so people can see things that you cant with the naked eye. When he scraped his tooth he found bacteria that causes tooth decay. The germs that cause disease were now visible. -
Apothecaries or early pharmacies started in medieval England. They would trade drugs and spices from the east. -
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He discovered bifocals, and found out a cold can be passed from person to person. -
The 18th century learning was different from before. They had a new way of teaching medicine. Students had to attend lectures in the class room and labs, and also had to persevere patients at bedside. -
Discovered the element oxygen. Observed plants and how they refresh air making oxygen usable for respiration. -
Discovered a vaccination for smallpoxs. His discover saved millions of people from smallpoxs. This discovery also helped immunization and to prevent mediocre in public health. -
Invented the first stethoscope it was made out of wood. It helped hear someone’s heart beat and their lungs as well. This helped doctors to determine if a disease was present. -
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This women was very well educated. She was dedicated to nightingale school of nursing. The graduates from this school helped make this a respectable profession -
Discovered the cause for childbed fever. A ton of women died after giving birth. Ignaz Semmelweis figured out it was because they had fevers and it was killing them. People never used to wash their hands while do surgeries, so they would infect these women that were giving birth. Ignaz Semmelweis studies were proven correct so everyone had to start washing their hands. -
He was known as the father of microbiology. Through his discovers he found out microorganisms cause diseases. He discovered the heating of milk prevented the growth of bacteria. He also created a vaccine for rabies. -
Discovered that some disease are not able to be seen with a microscope. He did find out these are viruses, but these viruses weren’t studied until the electron microscope was created. -
Learned from Pasteurs discovery that microorganisms cause infections. By using carbolic acid on wounds it would kill germs that caused those infections. He was the very first doctor to use an antiseptic which prevents infection when incision are being made. -
He devolved a method to keep an area germ free before and during surgery from the use of Josephs and Louis’s research. He name of his method is asepsis. -
Robert introduced being clean to prevent the spread of disease. He discovered many disease causing organisms. Developed something called th culture plate method it identifies pathogens, and isolates the bacterium that’s causes tuberculosis. -
He figured out a treatment that was effective against some microorganisms, but not effective on killing other bacterias. While trying to treat syphilis he completed 606 experiments. On the 606th experiment he found a treatment that worked. -
Discovered X-rays in 1895. He even was the first person to take pictures using an X-ray. With this discovery he helped doctors see inside the human body. This helped the doctors figure out what was wrong with their patients. -
Anesthesia helps with pain, and putting patients to sleep safely. Before there was such thing as anesthesia they used herbs and alcohol to prevent pain during the surgery. They would even choke patients until they passed out. -
Found out that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria. The discovery of penicillin was known to be one of the most important discoveries in the 20th century. Before penicillin tons of people died from things like pneumonia, gonorrhea, and blood poisoning. These are things that are cure able today. -
He studied psychology, and when the body is conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. This helped with the understanding of psychosomatic illness. -
He discovered sulfonamide compounds. At first they were medication effective in killing bacteria. They. Changed the practice by killing deadly diseases. -
Found out that dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. This virus was paralyzing thousands of people. -
Used live polio virus vaccine which was more efficient. This vaccine now is used for babies against this dreaded disease. -
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA. They won the noble piece prize foe figuring out the double helix. How the DNA replicates how the hereditary information is coded on it. -
First successful heart transplant. -
Performs hemispherectomies, on there brain to stop seizures. -
Minimal invasive surgery so instead of them cutting a huge incision down your stomach it’s tiny incisions. The healing time is shorter, and the pain isn’t as bad as it used to be. -
This girl who got into an accident head severely damaged her nose lips teeth and cheekbones.So in France they did a 24 hour surgery reconstructing and fixing her damage face. -
There has been a huge drop in death rates from HIV. There was a 10% drop in deaths due to the improvements in medications. -
Targeted cancer therapy works 2 different ways. 1 they will interfere with the spread of cancer by blocking cells involved in tumor growth. 2 it was kill the deadly cancer cells. -
This is something that was used to restore DNA to their normal function. So if someone had a genetic condition it could be fixed.