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Evil spirits -
Exorcise
Blood letting
Prayer and divine intervention -
Digitalis: heart medication
Quinine: controls fever and muscle spasms.
Belladonna and atropine: relief muscle spasms
Morphine: pain medication -
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They were the first to keep health records
Priests acted as physicians
Used medicines to heal -
First to use acupuncture therapies
Commonly used today -
First to discover illness might be caused by a lack of sanitation. -
First to organize health care
Had rooms in there house for the sick -
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Believed life and death was in gods hands. -
They prayed that the disease would go away -
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Bubonic plague: killed 60 million people
Smallpox
Syphilis
Tuberculosis -
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Buildings for medical research were made
acceptance of the dissection of the body for study
Started publishing books -
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
Discovered the Fallopian tubes In the female anatomy -
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
Able to describe the blood circulation and the pumping of the heart -
Invented the microscope
Life smaller then the blind eye can see -
Did the first successful heart transplant -
Engaged in drugs and spices trade from the east
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Discovered colds can be passed from person to person directly
Discovered bifocals -
They attended lectures
Observed patients bed side
Led to better understanding of how sickness is spread and how to cure it -
Discovered the element of oxygen
Discovered how oxygen can be reused -
Discovered a vaccine for smallpox
Discovery saved millions of lives -
Discovered the stethoscope
It increases the ability to hear the heart beat -
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Identified the cause of childbed fever
Made hadn’t washing a accepted practice in medicine -
Raised standards for nursing
Took a group of 38 woman to care for soldiers in war
Designed a hospital ward that improved health care of the patients -
Discovered microorganisms were everywhere
Pasteurization kills bacteria in milk
Made a vaccine for rabies -
Discovered microorganisms cause infection
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Devolved asepsis
Had a method to keep germs out of surgery’s -
Discovered many disease causing organisms
Devolved a method to find bacteria that causes tuberculosis -
discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
On his 606 attempt, he found a treatment that worked -
Discovered the x-ray
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Made patience’s unconscious during surgery
Made surgery way less painful -
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
One of the most important discoverers in the 20th century -
Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
Let to the understanding of psychosomatic -
Discovered sulfanilamide compounds.
First affective in killing bacteria -
Discovered a way to cure poliomyelitis
Saved many from death or crippling -
Used a polio virus vaccine
Used to immunize babies against the dreaded disease -
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA
Figured out its a double helix -
Continuing Separating Siamese twin and performing hemispherectomies
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Nurses are visiting patients at home
Doctors are often doing telemedicine
Using electronic communications to send important information
Teaching patients about self care
Go to specific doctors for different needs