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Illnesses and disease were caused by supernatural spirits.
They would have tribal doctors perform exorcisms to get rid of them. Digitalis used to treat heart failure and rhythm problems.
Quinine used to treat malaria, leg cramps and your nervous system.
Belladonna and atropine used to treat irritable bowel syndrome.
Morphine treats severe pain. -
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The Egyptians were the most accurate kept although records.
The physicians were priests.
They would use bloodletting with leaches attached as a method to drain out the sickness or disease.
Th ancient Chinese were the first to use acupuncture and they treated illness with stone tools. -
The Greeks would house people in sacred temples but soon learned about massage and herbal therapies that would work more.
Bodies were not allowed to be dissected at this time.
Hippocrates the father of medicine based his info on observance and would follow signs and symptoms of disease.
The Greeks brought clean water into their cities by using aqueducts to help cure some diseases that were caused by lack of sanitation. -
The Egyptians were the first to organize their medical care and send doctors and their equipment during wars.
Hospitals started because doctors would hold people in their houses to take care of. -
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They stopped the study of medicine because the church believed death was in Gods hands.
To treat diseases they would would pray, and use herbal mixtures. -
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During this time there was a epidemic that included diseases like bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. Alone the bubonic plague (the Black Death) killed 60 million people. -
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They started building medical schools along with other university’s. They used s printing press to create books for research and were finally opened to dissecting bodies. -
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Leonardo is know for his art and many other things. He also recorded the anatomy of the human body. -
Gabriele is famous for finding the Fallopian tubes in woman anatomy. -
Bartolommeo discovered the Eustacian tube which is a tube that goes from the ear to the throat. -
William was a physician who was the first person to understand and describe the circulation of blood and how the heart pumps. -
Antonine created the microscope and discovered bacteria causes tooth decay. -
Apothecaries were earlier pharmacies and flourished in trading spices and drugs. -
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Benjamin discovered bifocals and that colds could be passed from person to person. -
They started going to labs, lectures and a serving patients. When patients died they would dissect them to understand the cause of death. -
Joseph discovered the element of oxygen and also observed how plants refresh air. -
Edward discovered a method to vaccinate smallpox, Savin millions of lives. -
Rene invented the stethoscope which increase the ability to hear the lungs, and heart so doctors could determine if there was a disease. -
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Ignaz discovered that women were dying after giving birth because physicians didn’t wash their hands or change their aprons. It lead to childbed fever. -
Florence implemented action plans to improve sanitary conditions by making people clean both hands and body, this reduced their hospitals death by two thirds during the Crimean war. -
Louis was known as the father of microbiology because he discovered that there were tiny microorganisms everywhere. He proved that they caused disease. -
Dmitri discovered that filtered sap from sick plants could be used to transfer the infection to healthy plants. -
Joseph was the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery, which helped prevent infection. -
Ernst developed a method to keep areas germ free while surgery’s occur. -
Robert developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and stopped the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. -
Paul created a way to explain the body’s immune systems responses and did work with chemo. He own the Nobel prize in physiology in 1908. -
Wilhelm discovered x rays and took the very first picture of his wife’s hand. -
Anesthesia wasn’t used until the 19th century. They would use herbs, hashish , and alcohol to relieve some pain but used methods like choking patients until they were knocked out so that they wouldn’t feel the pain. -
Alexander discovered that penicillin killed serious bacterias. This discovery was one of the most important in the 29th century. -
Sigmund discovered that unconscious and conscious parts of the mind effects each other. This is how they would come to understand psychosomatic illness. -
Gerhard discovered that an antibacterial dyes had actions against streptococcal and it helped agisnst the infections with humans. -
Jonas discovered a polio virus cause immunity to poliomyelitis which paralyzed thousands of people. -
He used a live vaccine which was for effective and is still used today. -
They discovered the structure of DNA and explained how it replicates. -
Christian esa the first person to perform a heart transplant. -
Ben was a physician who separated Siamese twins, performed hemispherectomies, and did surgeries to prevent seizures. -
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This ban stopped people from smoking in indoors like bars and casinos. -
During this time doctors found living cells could be sprayed through printers. They used this to create body parts such as eyes, teeth, hearts, skin, ears, bones and ovarys. -
This disease destroys you nor liver and to cure this there is a antiviral drug that reduces the virus’s chance to replicate. -
Some artificial organs are eyes, hearts, skin, bones, muscles, brains, and liver. -
In 2006 three antiretroviral drags were made into one which would help prevent aids.