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They believed that diseases were caused by supernatural spirits -
Doctors used to try and exorcise the evil spirits out and used to cut holes in skulls to let them out -
Digitalis today is given in a pill form but in olden day people used to chew foxglove plant leaves to strengthen and slow the heart.
Quinine comes from cinchona tree bark and can control fevers, relieves muscle spasms and prevents malaria.
Belladonna and atropine are found in the poisonous nightshade plant and relieves muscle spasms.
Morphine is made in the opium poppy plant and relieves severe pain. -
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The Egyptians were the first to keep accurate health records. The priests were the physicians. The used medicine for disease and bloodletting for disorders. -
They were the first to discover and use acupuncture. They used stone tools to treat illnesses and disease. -
They were the first to think of diseases as natural rather than spiritual. Religious custom didn’t allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocrates based his knowledge of the human body on the external body and kept careful notes on symptoms and disease and with these notes discovered that they were caused naturally. -
The romans were the first to try and sanitize themselves by wearing masks with spice filled beaks and by separating the sick from the healthy. They also organized medicine by giving medical equipment to physicians. They also started making hospitals for the sick. -
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The romans were taken over by the Huns and they had no interest in studying medicine because of their religious beliefs. -
The primary treatment was prayer. Medicine consisted of herbal mixtures and care was custodial. -
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Epidemics caused millions of deaths during this period. The Black Death caused 60 million deaths alone. -
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During this time people started studying medicine again by opening universities and medical schools. They also allowed dissection. The development of the printing press also helped make books more readily available. -
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He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
He discovered Fallopian tubes -
He discovered the tube from the ear to the throat -
He used knowledge of physiology to describe the circulation of blood and the heart -
He invented the microscope and found life smaller than the eye can see. -
They were early pharmacies and started trading drugs and spices -
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He discovered bifocals and that colds can be spread from person to person -
Now students not only attended lectures but also stayed bedside with patients and dissected bodies. -
He discovered oxygen and that plants replace lost air -
He discovered the smallpox vaccine -
He invented the stethoscope to help study the heart and lungs -
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He discovered the cause of childbed fever -
She brought women to the nursing profession and started the nightngale school of nursing -
He discovered microorganisms and that they cause diseases -
He discovered viruses -
First doctor to use antiseptics during surgery -
He discovered asepsis -
He discovered many disease causing organisms -
He discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms -
He discovered x-rays -
Patients were drunk or even nocked unconscious before anesthesia. After the discovery of anesthesia patient survival rates increased. -
He discovered penicillin -
He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain -
He discovered sulfonamide compounds -
He discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to polio -
He found a better vaccine that uses a live polio virus which is in use today -
They discovered the double helix shape of molecular dna and won a Nobel prize -
He performed the first successful heart transplant -
He specializes in separating Siamese twins and hemispherectomies -
Now we don’t have to have folders and folders of paperwork because now we have online records to keep everything organized -
Now when you need a check up you can do virtual visits so that you don’t have to leave your house -
While not in the U.S. many places are offering free healthcare which helps in many ways. It decreases the severity of issues because people don’t wait to have enough money for the bill -
While in many cases technology isn’t being tested enough, the ones that are create a large difference in quality of care -
There has been a trend of helping healthcare workers have less burnout rates and better mental health in general like making the USMLE step 1 pass or fail which helps medical students have lower burnout rates. -