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evil spirts
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prayer
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Digitalis- pill comes from foxglove plant, treats heart conditions
Quinine- controls fever, relives muscle pain, and prevents malaria comes from cinchona tree Belladonna and atropine- relieves muscle pain and GI pain comes from poisonous nightshade plant Morphine-treating severe pain used when nothing else will help because its addicting comes from opium poppy plant -
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health records- the first people to keep accurate ones. The priests were physicians, they healed people by using medicines, they splinted fractures and they used bloodletting.
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The Chinese people were the first to use acupuncture they did this with stone tools to treat diseases and illnesses
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They had temples of healing. They were the first to study class of diseases. religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected. Hippocarates was known as the father of medicine he kept notes of signs and symptoms of the external body. The Greeks learned the effects of disease. They found out that it was caused by lack of sanitation, this was the start of public sanitation and health.
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first to organize medical care, Roman physicians kept rooms for the ill in their homes this was the beginning of hospitals, Roman physicians were paid by the Roman government. They wore a mask that they believed kept infections and bad orders away
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the study of medicine was stopped for 1000 years in the church only convents and monasteries practiced medicine. The churched stopped because they believed that the body was in Gods hands and the primary source of medicine was prayer.
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causes millions of deaths, the bubonic plague killed 60million, uncontrolled disease like smallpox, diphtheria, and tuberculosis also killed many
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Saw a rebirth in learning there were any developments like universities and other buildings for research. They had new ideas for disease, it was now socially acceptable for the dissection of the body. The printing press was made, they were publishing books allowing for greater access and knowledge.
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recorded the anatomy of the body
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discovered the fallopian tubes
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discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat
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describe the circulation of blood pumping to the heart
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invented the microscope
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florishing trade of drugs in the east
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he discovered that colds can be passed from person to person
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observed patients at the bedside and observed disease progression
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discoverd the oxygen element
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discovered the smallpox vaccine
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made the stethoscope
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Helped improve the dirty imvermant
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found the cause of childbed fever
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discovered that microorganisms are everywhere
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discovered viruses
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first to use antiseptics in surgery
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