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Supernatural Spirits
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Exorcisms -
Digitalis is used for heart
Quinine is for fever
Belladonna and Atropine is for GI pain
Morphine is for pain -
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First to keep accurate Health Records
Physicians = Priests
Used leeches to heal -
First to use acupuncture with stone tools
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First to realize illness is natural cause - not spiritual
Did not allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates - wrote standard of ethics = Oath of Hippocrates -
First to develop sanitation system
First to organize medical care
Beginning of hospital development- built houses for ill -
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Life and Death were in Gods hands
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Prayer -
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Epidemics- caused millions of deaths - uncontrolled diseases -
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Built universities + medical schools
Accepted dissection to study body
Developed printing press = published books -
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Studied and recorded anatomy of body
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Discovered fallopian tubes
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Discovered Eustachian tube -
Able to describe circulation of blood and pumping of the heart
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Invented microscope
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Early pharmacies - trade in drugs and spices
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Discovered bifocals - colds could be passed from person to person
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Students attended lectures, observed patients
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Discovered element oxygen
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Discovered method of vaccination/immunization for smallpox
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Invented the stethoscope -
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Identified cause of child bed fever
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Dedicated women to the Nightingale School of Nursing
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Discovered tiny microorganisms were everywhere and caused disease
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Discovered virus - diseases caused by microorganisms
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First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
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Developed aspesis
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Discovered disease-causing organisms
Introduced cleanliness to prevent spread of disease -
Discovered effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
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Discovered X-rays -
Nitrous oxide and chloroform used for anesthesia
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Discovered penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
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Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds
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Discovered a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
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First to use a live polio virus vaccine
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Discovered the molecular structure of DNA based on its double helix -
Performed the first successful heart transplant
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First to perform hemispherectomies and separate Siamese twins -
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FDA approved cyberknife for treatment of tumors -
Started the WFIRM for 3D printing synthetic organs -
Worlds first bionic hand was released with 5 individual moving fingers
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Department of Health and Human Services pushed medical community to use electronic health records
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Worlds first lab grown blood transfusion for volunteering patients