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Herbs and plants -
Digitalis is used for the heart
Quinine is used for fevers
Belladonna and atropine are for GI pain
Morphine is used for pain -
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Earliest people to keep accurate records
Priests acted as physicians
Medicines to heal, learned art of splitting fractures and use of leeches -
Stone Age were the first acupuncture therapies. Their methods developed over time to advanced practice.
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They believed in natural rather than spiritual.
They did not allow bodies to be dissected.
Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics. -
They found a disease was caused by lack of sanitation. They brought clean water, sewers, and filtering systems.
First to organize medical care.
They started keeping rooms in their house for the ill. This was the start of hospitals. -
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They stopped because the Church believed life and death were in God’s hands. -
Prayer -
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Caused millions of deaths
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Building university’s and schools for research
Acceptance of dissection if the body for study
Development of printing press and publishing of books -
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Studies and recorded anatomy of the body
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Discovered fallopian tubes
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Discovered tube leading from ear to throat (Eustachian tube)
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Describe the circulation of blood and the pumping heart.
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Invented the microscope -
Engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices
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Discovered bifocals and found that colds are passed from person to person.
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Besides learning in a classroom they also observed patients at the bedside.
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Discovered the element oxygen
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Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox
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Invented the stethoscope -
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Identified cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever)
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During war she showed her dedication to nursing -
Known as “Father of Microbiology”
Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere
Discovered heating milk prevented growth of bacteria
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Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope.
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Became first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery.
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Developed asepsis
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Discovered many disease-causing organisms
Developed the culture plate method
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Discovered the effect of medicine on disease-causing microorganisms
On the 606th experiment he found a treatment that worked -
Discovered x-rays -
Before anesthesia doctors used herbs, alcohol, and even chocking method to relive pain/get them unconscious. When it was introduced it helped prevent pain during surgery. -
Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria.
Considered on of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century. -
Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
Determined that the mind and body work together.
His studies were the basis of psychology and psychiatry. -
Discovered sulfonamide compounds.
Changed the practice of medicine by killing deadly diseases. -
Discovered that a dead polo virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.
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Used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective.
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Discovered the molecular structure of DNA, based on its known double helix. Their model shows how DNA replicated and how information is coded. This set advancements in molecular biology. They won a Noble Prize in Medicine for this discovery.
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Performed the first successful heart transplant in 1968. -
Pioneer in separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies, surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.
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- At home care/Hospice
- The ability to transplant several body parts
- The ability to use noninvasive techniques
- Telemedicine
- Caring for unborn fetus