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Herbs and plants were used as medicines, and morphine for pain. Which are still used today.
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Were caused by supernatural spirits and demons
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Average life span was 20 years
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Called upon the gods
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Imhotep may have been the first physician
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Average life span was 20-30 years.
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Religious prohibitions against dissection resulted in inadequate knowledge of body structure.
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Believed in the need to treat the while body by curing the spirit.
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Average life span was 20-30 years
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Oath of Hippocrates dissected animals
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Dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy.
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Average life span 25-35 years
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Created aqueducts to carry clean water to the cities.
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First hospitals were created.
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23-35 years
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Emphasis was placed on saving the soul, and the study of medicine was prohibited prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illness and disease.
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Prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illness and disease
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20-30 years
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Physicians began to obtain knowledge at medical universities in the 9th century.
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Pandemic of bubonic plague. Killed 3/4 of population.
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An Arab physician became known as the Arab Hippocrates
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20-35 years
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Rebirth of the science of medicine.
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Dissection of the body began to allow a better understanding of anatomy and physiology.
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Artists Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci used dissection in order to draw the human body more realistically.
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30-40 years
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Were still not known and many people died from infections.
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Ambrose pare was known as the father of modern surgery.
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Identified the Fallopian tubes in the female. Described the tympanic membrane in the ear
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35-45 years.
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Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart in 1628
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Invented the microscope in 1666
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Apothecaries made prescribed and sold medications
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35-45years
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Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714
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Prescribed lime juice containing vitamin c to prevent scurvy in 1795
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Developed a vaccination for smallpox
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40-50 years
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First successful blood transfusion was preformed on humans in 1818 by James blundell
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Became the first female physician in the united states
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Was the founder of modern nursing
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Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross
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Discovered roentgenograms in 1895
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40-60 years
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Discovered penicillin in 1928
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The first heart lung mechine was used for open heart surgery
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The first lung transplant -James hardy
The first liver transplant -Thomas starzl
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Computerized axial tomography cat scan was devolved in 1975
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The first test tube baby Louise brown was born in England
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60-70 years
