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Digitalis is for the heart, quinine is for fevers, Belladona and atropine are for GI pain, and morphine is for pain
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Health records: Egyptians were the earliest to keep accurate health records
Who are physicians: priests
How did they heal: medicines, art of splinting fractures, and treated disorders by bloodletting with the use of leeches -
The ancient Chinese were the first to develop acupuncture therapies. They treated disease with stone tools. These methods later developed into advanced practices of Chinese acupuncture.
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Illness cause nature vs. spiritual: determined that illnesses may have natural rather than spiritual causes by studies
Dissection: religious custom didn’t allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates: father of medicine -
Sanitation systems: brought clean water to city’s by aqueducts
Organize medical care: kept clean room in their houses for ill
Hospital development: public buildings for care of the sick -
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Life and death were in gods hands -
Prayers -
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Caused millions of death
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Rebirth: new scientific process began
The building of universities and medical schools
Acceptance of dissection of body for study
Printing press and publishing of books -
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Studied/ recorded anatomy of the body
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Discovered fallopian tubes of female anatomy
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Discovered Eustachian tube
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Physiology
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Invented microscope -
Early pharmacies -
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Discovered bifocals -
Attended lectures and observed patients bedside. Led to better understanding of illness and death
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Discovered oxygen
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Method of vaccination for smallpox
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Invented stethoscope -
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Identified cause of childbed fever
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Attracted well educated, dedicated women to nightingale school of nursing
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Father of microbiology
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Discovered diseases that can’t be seen with microscope
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Learned microorganisms cause infection
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Developed asepsis
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Discovered disease causing organisms
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Discovery effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
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Discovered X-rays -
Surgery was performed without anesthesia
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Penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
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Conscious and unconscious parts of mind
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Sulfamide compounds
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Dead polio virus would cause immunity to to poliomyelitis
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Discovered oral polio vaccine
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Molecular structure of DNA
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Performed 1st successful heart transplant -
Separating Siamese twins, performing hemispherectomies
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Decrease in Number of Deaths from Heart Disease
New Understanding of Cancer.
Big Advances in Trauma Care
Hepatitis C is Curable
We Can Save People from Fatal Opiate Overdoses. -