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Important Medicine still used today are morphine for pain, and digitalis for the heart
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Believed diseases were caused by sprits and demons.
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The average life span was 20.
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The Egyptians called upon the gods to come and heal them.
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Priests were the common physicians. They studied medicine in temple. Historians think Imhotep was the first physician.
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Average life span was 20-30 years.
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Religion prohibited dissection which resulted inadequate knowledge of the body structure.
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Believed that the whole body needed to be treated by curing the sprit and nourishing the body.
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Average life span was 20-30 years.
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They used prayer and divine intervention to treat disease.
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Hippocrates is called the Father of Medicine:
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Dissected animals and is titled the founder of comparative anatomy. Also believed illnesses a result of natural cases.
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Average life span was 25-35 years
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Created aqueducts to carry clean water to the cities. Built sewers to carry waste materials away from them cities.
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Early hospitals had physicians that cared for the ill in their rooms in their homes
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25-35 years
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Medicine was prohibited because emphasis was put on savings the soul.
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Average life span was 20-30 years
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Physicians began to attend universities around the 9th century.
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The bubonic plague affected over 3/4 of the world population. Europe and Asia were the most effected.
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An Arab physicians, that became Arab Hippocrates.
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Average was 20-35 years old
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Rebirth of the science medicine
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Dissection of the body allowed better understanding of the anatomy and physiology.
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Michelangelo and Da Vinci used dissection to draw a more accurate representation of the human body.
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Average was 30-40 years
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Cause of disease were unknown but most people died from infections and childbirth.
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Ambroise Pare, a French surgeon.
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Identified fallopian tubes in women
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Average was 35-45 years
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Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.
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Invented the microscope in 1666.
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Early pharmacist made, prescribed, and sold medications
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Average was 35-45 years
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Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714
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Prescribed lime juice with vitamin C to prevent scurvy in 1795
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Developed vaccination for small pox.
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40-50 years
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First successful blood transfusion was preformed on humans in 1818.
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First female physician
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First training program for nurses in Germany, provided Florence with her training. Founder of modern nursing.
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Dorothea Dix created the International Red Cross.
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Discovered x-rays.
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40-60 years
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Discovered penicillin in 1928
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First successful heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard in 1968
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First successful kidney transplant was performed by Joesph Murray in 1955
First successful lung transplant was preformed by James Hardy in 1964
First successful heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard in 1968 -
Computerized axial tomography was invented.
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First baby born in a test tube in England in 1978. Her name was Louise Brown.
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40-60 years