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Spirits -
Blood letting
Exorcism
Prayer -
Foxglove plant given to you through vein, pill, or injected.
Quinine to control fever and relive pain.
Belladonna and atropine made from poisonous plant relives pain
Morphine for pain -
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Kept health records
Asked god to heal
Identified diseases
Priests were physicians -
First to use primitive acupuncture therapies
Practices are advanced and still used today -
Medicine was an art
Physicians housed in sacred temple
Determined illnesses to be natural or spiritual
Kept records
The did not dissect bodies
Hippocrates (father of medicine) knows facts from observing the body -
First to organize medical care
Cared for wounded soldiers with equipment
Physicians kept ill in a specific room in their house (beginning of hospitals)
Pubic buildings for the ill
Physicians were paid
Wore death masks -
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Getting conquered by Huns caused the Roman Empire to stop studying medicine for 1,000 years
Believed life and death were in gods hands -
Prayer
Herbal mixtures
Watched/protected the sick -
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Bubonic Plague killed 60 million people
Smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis were uncontrollable because of no vaccines -
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New scientific progress began
University’s and medical schools became forming
Started dissecting the body
Publishing books for learning -
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Studied and recorded anatomy of the body -
Discovered fallopius tubes in female anatomy -
Discovered the tube leading from ear to throat (eustachian tube) -
Learned about physiology
Described the circulation if blood and the pumping heart -
Invented microscope
Discovered small cells
Learned about tooth decay -
Started in medieval England
Traded for drugs and spices from the east -
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Discovered bifocals
realized colds can be contagious -
Had lectures and labs
Observed patents at bedside
Dissected dead bodies -
Discovered the element oxygen
Discovered respiration from plants -
Discovered vaccination for smallpox
Immunization and preventive medicine to public health -
Invented stethoscope -
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Identified the cause of puerperal fever
Labor and delivery nurses started washing their hands -
Cared for soldiers dying from cholera -
Descivered tiny microorganisms
Proved microorganisms cause disease -
Discover that some diseases are caused by microorganisms and cannot be seen with a microscope -
First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery -
Developed asepsis -
Developed culture plate ethic
Introduced importance of being clean -
Discovered effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms -
Discovered x rays -
Before the invention, doctors used herbs and alcohol of made then unconscious -
Discovered penicillin -
Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the brain -
Discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Discovered that dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Used live polio virus which worked better -
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Separated the Siamese twins
Performed hemispherectomies -
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Consultative, diagnostic, and treatment services -
People can transplant organs from donor to recipient -
Helps lower the risk of infection because the doctors don’t penetrate the skin for diagnosis -
Helps care for the unborn -
Helps aid diagnosis, accurate record keeping and research