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Evil spirits
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Tribal ceremonies to evict evil spirits.
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Digitalis: people chewed foxglove plants to slow down heart beat
Quinine come from the bark of the cinchona tree it controls fever relieves muscle spasms and helps prevent malaria
Belladonna and atropine made from poisonous nightshade plant helps with stomach aches
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Health records
Egyptians kept accurate health records.
Physicians
The priests acted as physicians.
Healing
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Development of acupuncture
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Illness cause nature vs spiritual
First to discover modern day mental illness.
Dissection
Religious customs did not allow bodies to dissect.
Hippocrates
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Sanitation systems
Built public bathrooms and filtering systems
Organize Medicare
Kept a room in their houses for the I’ll started hospitals
Hospital development
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Only practice for certain reasons for 1,000 years
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Herbal mixtures
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Black plague killed 60 million people during that time.
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Universities
Building of universities for medical research
dissections
the acceptance of dissection of the body for study
books
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leonardo studied and recorded anatomy of the human body
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discoverd the follopian tubes
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discoverd the tube leading from the ears to the throat
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able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart
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discoverd the microscope and how germs cause disease
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start of pharmacies and trade in drugs and spices
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discoverd that colds could spread from person to person
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attended classes, observed patients bed side and dissected them after death
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discoverd element oxygen and that plants refresh air making it usable for resperation
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discoverd vaccination for small pox
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invented the stethoscope
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Discoverd that handing is a important way to control the spread of infection
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opposed intrest in caring for ill
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discoverd that microorganisms were everywhere and that heated milk prevented bacteria
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discoverd viruses
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used carbolic acid the prevent infection -
discoverd a way to make a germ free area for surgery
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preached the importance of cleanleyness -
discoverd the effectof medicien on diesease causeing microorganisms
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discoverd x rays
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early anesthesia was herbs and alcohol but paitines would die from shock and pain -
discoverd penicillin killed life threating bacteria
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discoverd conciencnes and unconcesness
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discoverd sulfonamide compounds those medications were effective in killing bacteria
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discoverd a dead polio virus could cause immunity to poliomyelitis
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used a live polio virus vaccine which is more effective
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discoverd the molecular structure of dna
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performed first secsesful heart trans plant -
continues surgeris on the brain to stop siezurs -
better way for surgeries with no cuts and risk of infection -
3d printing organs like eyes and heart -
the use of smart watches to monitor your hearts rhythm -
new prostetics that can keep cell structure -
combined 4 treatments into one