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Evil spirits -
Blood letting
Exercise
Prayer and Devine intervention -
Digitalis- helps heart
Quinine- controls fever, relieves muscles spasms, prevents malaria
Belladonna and atropine- relieves muscle spasms
Morphine- pain killer -
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Health records- first people to keep accurate health records
Who are physicians- the priests
How did they heal- use medicine to heal disease, splinting fractures, bloodletting or leaches -
Development of acupuncture- pioneers used stone tools -
Illness cause nature vs. spiritual- First to study cause of disease and determine illness may have natural rather than spiritual causes
Dissection- religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates- wrote the standard of ethics called oath of Hippocrates -
Sanitation system- developed sanitation system brought clean water into cities and built sewers and baths
Organize medical care- first to organize medical care sent medical physicians and equipment with there armies
Hospital development- Roman physicians started an ill room which led to hospitals -
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The Romans Empire was conquered by the Huns stopped the study of medicine for 1,000 years -
Convents and monasteries
Primary treatment was prayer, herbal mixtures -
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Terrible epidemics caused millions of dealths -
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Universities- building universities and medical schools for research
Dissection- accepted for study
Books- development of the printing press and publishing of books -
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Studied the anatomy of the body -
Discovered the Fallopian tubes -
Discovered tube leading ear to throat -
Able to describe cumulative of blood and the pumping of the heart -
Invented microscope -
Started at this time in medieval England -
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Discovered bifocals and that colds can be passed person to person -
Started doing lectures and observing patients at bedside dissected bodies toobserve disease process -
Discovered the element of oxygen and that plants refresh air -
Discovered vaccination for small pox -
Invented stethoscope -
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Found cause of childbed fever made hand washing important -
Cared for the ill took a group of 38 woman to help people in the war -
Father of microbiology
Heating milk kills bacteria -
Discovered some diseases were caused by microorganisms called viruses -
Learned about Pasteur
Discovered microorganism cause infection
Used carboholic acid on wounds to kill germs
First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery -
Devolved asepsis -
Developed culture plate method
Introduced importance of cleanliness
Discovered many disease causing organisms -
Discovered effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
Found a cure for syphilis -
Discovered x-rays -
Used herbs and hashish and achohol to help pain
Choked patients to stop pain -
Found that penicillin killed life threading eating bacteria -
Found the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain
Determined mine and body work together -
Discovered sulfonmide compounds
First medification effective in killing bacteria -
Discovered the dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Used a live polio vaccine -
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
First successful heart transplant -
Separated Siamese twins
And survives to stop brain seizures -
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Telemedicine- Using electronic communications to exchange medical information
The ability to reattach severed body parts
Advancements in caring for unborn fetuses
Ability to transplant organs from a donor to recipient
Possibility of getting rid of a disability threw genetic research