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Evil Spirits
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Tribal doctors performed ceremonies to force out evil spirts
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Digitalis is a heart medication
Quinine helps fever, muscle spasms, prevent malaria
Belladonna and Atropine relieves muscle spasms, GI pain
Morphine for treating severe pain -
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They were the first people to keep accurate health records
The priests acted as physicians
They called upon the Gods to heal them -
First to use primitive acupuncture -
First to study causes of diseases and discovered that they might me natural not spiritual
Religious custom didn't allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates is the father of medicine -
They brought clean water into their cities by aqueducts
First to organize medical care
First people to keep a room for the sick -
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They believed it was in God’s hands
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They treated it by prayer
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Epidemics caused millions of deaths
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New scientific presses began
Building of universities for medical research
Started dissection for study of the body
Books allowed for better research -
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Leonardo da Vinci recorded the anatomy of the body -
He discovered fallopian tubes in females -
He discovered the tube from the ear to the throat -
Discovered circulation of blood and pumping of the heart
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Invented the microscope, found smaller life than the eye can see -
Early pharmacies
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Discovered Bifocals, and colds can be passed from person to person -
New teaching methods, attended lectures, observed patients, dissected body, observed dissection process
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Discovered the element of oxygen
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Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
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He invented the stethoscope -
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Identified the cause of childbed fever
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He attracted well educated women to nightingale school of nursing
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“Father of microbiology”
Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere -
Discovered that some diseases are cause by microorganisms called viruses
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Used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs that could cause infection
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He developed asepsis, which is used to sterilize wounds and other things
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Discovered many disease causing organisms
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Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
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Discovered X-rays -
They had the ability to put people in a deep sleep
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Found that Penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
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Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds, first killing bacteria medication
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Discovered that a polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
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Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
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Used a live polio virus vaccine, it was more effective
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Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Preformed the first successful heart transplant
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Separates Siamese twins, performs hemispherectomies -
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The ability to reattach severed body parts
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New facilities are being developed to better meet physical and mental needs of senior citizens
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Nurses are visiting patients at home and caring for them in a ambulatory care setting
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Health care providers use electronics to send medical information
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Patients used to recover in the hospital over a period of several days, today they can have surgery and leave the same day