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Evil spirits -
Blood letting
Exorcism
Divine interventions -
Digitalis- Treats heart conditions(made from foxglove plant)
Quinine- Controls fever, relieves muscle spasm(made from bark of Cinchona tree)
Belladonna- Relieves muscle spasm(made from poison)
Morphine- Treats severe pain(made from opium poppy) -
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Health records- They were the earliest people to keep accurate health records.
Who are physicians- Priests who used medicine to heal disease.
How did they heal? Splinting fractures, and treated disorders by blood letting with leeches. -
Development of acupuncture- used stone tools, developed into Chinese acupuncture still in use today -
Illness cause nature vs. spiritual- first to study illness can be causes by nature rather than spiritual.
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Sanitation Systems- Brought clean water from water ways and made sewers for the dirty water.
Organize Medical Care- Sent medical care and physicians to wounded soldiers. First the have organized medical care.
Hospital Development- Physicians kept rooms in their houses for the ill. -
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They believed life and death was in gods hands. -
The main treatment was prayer or herbal mixes. -
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Bubonic plague killed 60 million people, and there was controlled disease like smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis and tuberculosis. -
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Universities- Medical schools for research.
Dissection- Study of the body.
Books- access to knowledge from research. -
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Studied the anatomy of the body. -
Discovered the Fallopian tubes -
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
Was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping to the heart -
Invented the microscope, and established life is smaller than the eye can see -
Early pharmacies. -
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Discovered bifocals, found colds can be passed from person to person. -
Lectures and laboratories, also observed patients at the bedside. When a patient died they dissected the body and were able to observe the disease process. -
Discovered the element oxygen, also observed that plants refresh air that lost oxygen, making it useable for respiration. -
Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox. -
Invented the stethoscope. -
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Identified the cause of childbed fever. Noted patients of midwives has less deaths. Started hand washing and cleanliness for procedures. -
Founder of modern nursing. -
Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere. Proved microorganism cause disease. -
Discovered some disease or cause by microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope called viruses. -
He used carbolic acid on wound to kill the germs. First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery. -
Developed asepsis(Sterile Condition free from germs.) Developed a way to keep an area free of germs during surgery. -
Discovered many disease causing organisms. He developed a way to identify pathogens and also isolate the bacterium that cause TB(tuberculosis). -
Discovered the effect of medicine on microorganisms. His discovery was successful in killing microorganisms but not other bacteria. -
Discovered X-rays in 1895. -
Loss of feeling or sensation. -
Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria. -
Discovered the conscious and unconscious part of the mind. -
Discovered sulfonamide compounds. These were the first medications effective in killing bacteria. -
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitides. -
Used a live polio virus vaccine which is more effective. -
Discovered the molecule structure of DNA. -
Preformed the first successful heart transplant in 1968. -
Pioneer to separating Siamese twins, and preforming hemispherectomies (surgeries on the brain to stop seizures) -
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The disease was first founded in the 1980’s and the vaccine was founded in 2006. -
uses pulsed signals to trigger DNA repair and cell recovery -
Nurses and Doctors are able to send clients medical info online -
How they were able to make a vaccine for covid in 2020 when the disease was for the first time at its worst -