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They believed that illness and disease was caused by spirits, and ceremonies were made. -
The bark of a cinchona tree is used to control fevers and relives muscle spasms. The foxglove plant is injected or swallowed in a pill form to control heart conditions. -
Belladonna and atropine are made from a nightshade plant and they relieve muscle spasms, (GI pain). Digitalis are used to control and treat heart conditions. Quinine controls fever and comes from a cinchona tree. Morphine is used to control and treat severe pain. -
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They were very good at keeping accurate health records, they also called to god to heal very single one. They were very good at identifying different diseases, priests acted like physicians. Medicines were used to heal anything and everything like fractures to disorders. Leeches were used to suck up blood. -
They used the development of acupuncture to cure illness and diseases and is still used today. -
Medicine was considered art and physicians had a sacred mission. Illnesses are caused because of spirits or spiritual causes. They also kept record of everything, every symptom, etc. Dissection was based on religious custom and Hippocrates was based on Anatomy, he wrote down very little thing he found and made a sanitation system. -
Sending medical equipment was very important in Roman times. Physicians were paid by the Roman Government, Roman Physicians wore a death mask, these helped them from infection or bad odors. They had a certain rooms in their houses for the ill. They brought water into the cities by aqueducts, built sewers and made public baths with filtering systems. -
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The church believed that both life and death are in gods hands and he controls it. The treatment was a simple prayer. -
Treatment was simple as herbal mixtures. Some vaccines can treat certain illnesses. -
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The bubonic plague killed 60 million people, they couldn’t find something to control it at the time now in the future they have it controlled with medicine and vaccines. -
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During this time, universities and medical schools are being built. The body of dissection is for only study during thus time period, they also started to print and publish books. -
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He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. -
She discovered the Fallopian tubes from female anatomy. -
He discovered the Eustachian tube, the tube from the ear to the throat. -
He used his knowledge to describe the circulation of blood pumping to the heart. -
He invented the microscope and scraped his teeth and found bacteria that caused tooth decay. -
He engaged in drugs and spices trade from the east. Pharmacies were just starting to open. -
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Benjamin found the bifocals and discovered that colds can spread to person to person. -
Students attended school like in patients rooms observing everything but they also did classroom lecture and labs. When a patient died they opened the patient up and got to dissect the body, like what they call today as an autopsy. -
He discovered the oxygen, and the element of oxygen. He observed plants as well. -
His discovery saved millions due to finding the vaccination for smallpox. -
She invented the stethoscope, at first was made of wood, this increased being able to hear if their was a disease present at the time of exam. -
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He found the cause of childbed fever, women got this fever after giving birth, they also could of died because the person delivering their baby didn’t bother to wash their hands. -
She started a school for nursing, training, protection, and built and put together a perfect, clean, healthy hospital, unlimited beds, and 3 windows on each side so their was air flow. -
He is known as “ Father of Microbiology,” he has studied to find microorganisms, he proved that these can cause diseases, he also created the vaccine for rabies. -
He discovered these diseases like, poliomyelitis, chicken pox, rabies, German measles, measles, herpes zoster, influenza, and mumps. -
He was the first doctor to use an antiseptic during a surgery. -
He knew and discovered asepsis, and found the germ infections and wounds. -
He identified and found pathogens and isolated bacterium that was caused by tuberculosis. -
He used many chemicals to use together to fight diseases, it took him 606 experiments to find the right mixture to work. He discovered the effects of medicine in microorganisms. -
His discovery was x-rays! His very first picture was his wife’s hand, this led to many more discoveries to find other bones. -
They never used anesthesia, but they would give them just pain medication after the procedure, or if the pain was to bad then they would choke them to knock them unconscious. During surgery patients died from shock and pain. Nitrous Oxide was used in dental procedures to knock them out, then they started to use that. This is meant to put people out for long enough to not cause pain at all. -
He found penicillin that killed bacteria, the bacteria was life threatening at the time. -
His discovery was the parts of the mid of being unconscious and conscious, he was very determined that the body and mind always work together and he also found the psychosomatic illness. -
He discovered sulfonamide compounds and these were given to the people who had effective in killing diseases. -
He discovered that dead polio viruses causes immunity to poliomyelitis. -
He made a live polio virus vaccine and now today babies can get vaccinated for it! -
They discovered the molecular structure of DNA and won a Nobel prize in Medicine. -
He was the first person to successfully to give a heart transplant. -
He was able to do surgeries on the tops of heads and perform hemispherectomies. -
Heart disease deaths have dropped 40 % since they have made different restrictions against smoking. -
Doctors have now changed how they would cut open a patient, it used to be very only scars, now they can be small, and now people can have a shorter recovery time due to this. -
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Nowadays we have assisted living for our senior citizens, this has the ability for them to have assistance if needed, they are sent to this facility if they are needing help. -
Today we use computers to put in notes or if they need a refill on their prescription. This is how we communicate. -
Covid-19 had caused over millions of deaths in the past year. Today they have a vaccine to help or stay clear from it.