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Disease was caused by dark spirits/supernatural spirits -
-used medicine
-splinting fractures
-believed that the gods would heal them
-bloodletting with leaches
-acupuncture
Treating with stone tools
-using sanitary options
-medical equipment -
Digitalis, Quinine, Morphine, belladonna and atropine -
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Health records
-Egyptians were the on of the first people to keep health records Who are physician?
-Priest acted as physicians How did they heal?
-used medicine
-splinting fractures
-believed that the gods would heal them
-bloodletting with leaches -
-used acupuncture
- treatment with stone tools -
-illness cause nature vs. spiritual
-Dissection
-Hippocrates -
-sanitation systems
-organize medical care
-hospital development -
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During the dark ages medicine and treatments where only practiced in convents and monasteries due to the church believing that life and death was in gods hands.
-they treated people simply by praying -
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During this time range there was a terrible epidemic called the bionic plague or the Black Death.
-killed 60 million people
Some other big plagues: smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis and tuberculosis.
Today we have vaccines to prevent these epidemics -
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-built universities
- the realization that sickness doesn’t come from spirts/gods
-print/books
-dissection -
Leonardo da Vinci studied the human body and recorded the human body -
Found the Fallopian tubes -
Found the tube that leads from the ear and to the throat -
William Harvey used his knowledge to find out how the circulation of blood and the pumping of a persons heart -
-invented the microscope
-realized that germs were now visible -
-early pharmacy’s
-trade of drugs and spices -
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Discovered:
-bifocals
-Colds could be passed on to person to person -
-observe patients (dead and alive)
- observed the cause of death and disease process
-better understanding of illness and death -
-discovered oxygen
-the creation of respiration -
-a method of vaccination for smallpox
-saved millions from smallpox
-immunization -
-invented the stethoscope(made of wood)
- increased the ability to hear the heart -
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-identified the cause of puerperal fever
- realized cleanliness and sanitation is a standard practice in health care -
- was one of the first female nurse because nursing wasn’t a “woman’s job” and she helped cure illnesses for war soldiers.
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-discovered Microbiology/microorganisms cause illness
-heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria
-created a vaccine for rabies -
Discovered that disease can be caused by microorganisms that are too small to see in a microscope (viruses) -
-carbolic acid to heal wounds/kill germs
-used antiseptic to prevent infections in surgery -
-developed asepsis (sterile condition) -
-discovered disease causing organisms
-culture plate method (to identify bacteria)
-importance of cleanliness and sanitation -
-discovered how medicine worked to kill of microorganisms
-use of chemicals
-after 606 experiments he found the cure to syphilis -
-discovered x-rays
-now able to see inside a patients body and what is wrong with them -
-most patients had to deal with the pain of surgery/sickness before anesthesia
-they used herbs, hashish, alcohol and choking to ease pain
-many passed from shock and pain
-chloroform and nitrous oxide was created(helped put patients to sleep) -
-discovered penicillin that would kill bacteria, before penicillin people died of illness that we don’t find as threatening today -
-discovered that there was conscious and unconscious
-the mind and body work together
-psychosomatic illness -
-discovered sulfonamide which was one of the first medicine that was effective in killing diseases -
-created the vaccine for poliomyelitis by finding out that dead polio viruses care actually cure poliomyelitis -
- used a live polio virus vaccine which worked better than Jonas Salk’s previous vaccine
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- Discovered the structure of DNA and how DNA is hereditary -helped the creation of molecular biology
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-first successful heart transplant -
- preforms surgery on Siamese twins by separating and also hemispherectomies which helps stop seizures
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Is a non-invasive ventilation strategy for newborns with infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) and it helps newborns life/breathe on their own -
The medicine called CGRP inhibitors help relive migraines
It is a small protein released by the triennial never during a migraine -
-pacemakers forces the heart to plump blood and with the smart phone connected people can tell what is happening with it and provides information about their heart and how it pumps and also contains all of their hearts history -
Although there was already a treatment for hepatitis, Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir is a fixed dose medication and is the approved as the most applicable treatment for hepatitis -
Most patients now can access their medical records and their data and it is a lot easier to access it than it being written down in a book/binder