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*people believed some illnesses were from evil spirits
*Doctors believed ceremonies (dance,music)
*Plants and herbs were common use for medicine
*They believed a hole in the skull can release bad spirits, and cure illness
*average lifespan twenty years -
*many physicians were also priests
*Evil spirits were still a believe to cause sickness
*first health records recorded
*Ancient Egyptians used honey and pomegranates as medicine
*bloodletting was common practice
*average lifespan 20-30 -
*First to organize medical care by providing car for those injured in war
*Soon hospitals were built mostly religious
* Better Health and sanitation were first introduced -
*Praying was most of what they did to try to cure illnesses
*The study of medicine was prohibited
*Priests and monks gave custodial care for the sick
*Medications were still mostly herbs
*Average life span 20-30 years -
*People started to re look at ancient Romans and Greeks medicine
*Arabs started to require physicians to pass a test before treating
*Major mass death of 75% of Europe and Asia due to the Bubonic plague
*Medical universities established
*life span 20-35 years -
*First people to observe the human body and how diseases effect the human body
*The believe that illness comes from evil fades and they start believing natural causes
*New types of therapy appear (massage, art, herbal)
*better self care id developed with diets, exercise, and hygiene -
*The science of medicine reopened
*New knowledge of anatomy
*printing press expanded medical knowledge
*life span 30-40 years -
*start of the belief of treating the whole body
*still using herbs and plant sin medicine
*The beginning of the therapy of acupuncture
*Looking for factional reasons on why we get sick
*average life span 20-30 -
*Great increase of knowledge on the body
*ligatures were used to stop bleeding
*Apothecaries made, prescribed, and sold medication
*Invention of the microscope makes a huge leap in medical knowledge
*life span 35-45 years -
*First mercury thermometer was made
*Bifocals were first made
*Scientific surgeries and tube feeding was established
*Small pox vaccine discovered
*Life span 40-50 years -
*Insulin was discovered to treat diabetes
*Antibiotics discovered
*Surgical and diagnostic techniques developed for fatal diseases
*The structure of DNA discovered -
*Test tube babies
*First organ transplants done
*Vaccines for many common diseases made
*Major advancement in stem cell research
*Second hand smoke is more noticeable
*targeted cancer treatment -
*MRI scans allow us to understand the brain more
*Doctors could significantly control heart disease
*New tools made surgery easier
*Laparoscopic surgery allowed surgeons to see inside the body
* The completion of the Human Genome Draft