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Evil spirts
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Blood letting
Exorcism
Prayer and Devine intervention -
Digitalis - Used for heart conditions
Quinine - Controls fever, relives musical pain, and helps prevent malaria
Belladonna and Atropine - Relives musical pain
Morphine - Treats severe pain -
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Health records - Ancient Egyptians had the earliest accurate records.
Who are physicians? - Workers and artist who had noble and sacred missions to save people.
How did they heal? - Splinting fractures, bloodletting with leaches medication. -
It improves communication between doctors and allows the patients quicker results. -
Genetic research eliminates the possibilities of disabling diseases. -
Many advances are being made in patients care related to the role of the nurse. -
These facilities are making improvements to meet the physical, emotional, and mental needs of our senior citizens. -
Doctors are more widely excepting alternative medicine or practices such as acupuncture as part of healing. -
Portable and hand held devices help with diagnosis, record keeping, and research. -
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He does surgeries on the brains to stop seizures, and separates connected twins at birth. -
He created the first successful heart transplant. -
They discovered the molecular structure of DNA. -
He discovered a live polio virus which is more effective. -
He discovered a vaccine for polio. -
He discovered sulfonamide compounds. -
He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. -
He created penicillin. -
It helps prevent patients from waking up during a painful surgery. -
He discovered X-rays. -
He discovered a treatment for syphilis. -
He discovered the culture plate method to identify pathogens and introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation when trying to prevent diseases. -
Development of acupuncture - Practiced since the Stone Age, an Ancient art of using tools to heal. -
He developed asepsis to keep an area clean before and during surgeries. -
He was the first to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection. -
He discovered viruses. -
He was the father of microbiology, discovered the pasteurization, and the vaccine for rabies. -
She was the founder of modern nursing. -
He identify the cause of child bed fever. -
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He invented the stethoscope. -
He discovered a vaccine for small pocks. -
He discovered oxygen, and it’s role in reparation. -
They attended lectures and labs, they observe patients from the bedside, and dissected bodies after the patient died. -
He discovered bifocals, and the fact the colds can be spread from person to person, -
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The first form of a pharmacy. -
He discovered the microscope. -
He described the circulation of the blood and the pumping of the heart. -
He discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat. -
He discovered the Fallopian tubes of the female anatomy. -
He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. -
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Universities - The universities and medical schools for research were established.
Dissection - Now is acceptable practice to study the human body.
Books - It allowed research to be shared with others. -
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Epidemics such as - Black deaths, small pocks, and tuberculosis killed millions of people during this time period. -
Illness cause nature vs. spiritual - Ancient Greeks proved that diseases have natural causes and were not caused by supernatural spirits.
Dissection - Religious customs prohibited dissection.
Hippocrates - Hippocrates is the father of medicine who’s research supported the theory of natural causes for illness. -
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They treated diseases mostly through prayers, and custodial care. -
Medicine was only practiced in convents and monasteries because the Huns believe life and death were in Gods hands. They did not care how the body works. -
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Sanitation systems - They built Aqueducts to bring in clean water and build sewers to take wast away, and the built public baths with filtering systems.
Organize medical care - They were the first to send medical care with the army.
Hospital Development - They had rooms in there houses for the sick which then lead to them making a hospital later on. -