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The study of medical science stopped for over 1,000 years.
Medicine praticed only in monasteries and convents used herbel medicine.
There were many players and epidemics - boboric
plague, small pox, diphtheria, and sypills -
Rebirth - The renaissance stilmulated medical practice just as it did all other Europan intellectual pursuit.
Medical schools were built
printing press was made and printed books
study of the bodies by dissection -
medical events – Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of Crocus sativus, commonly known as the saffron crocus. Saffron crocus grows to 20–30 cm and 8–12. It bears up to four flowers, each with three vivid crimson stigmas, which are the distal end of a carpel. Most spices in weight, is native to Greece.
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Willam harvey - described the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart.
anton von Leeunwerhoek -
Medical event – It when they found first discovered nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, ammonia, hydrogen chloride and oxygen.
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Rene Laennec - incented the stethoscope
Benjamin Franklin - invented befocals and found that colds could be passed from person to person. -
Elizbeth Blackwell - In 1849, she become the first women to quatfily as a doctor in the U,S.
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Medical event – Men were generally partially sedated with chloroform or alcohol before surgeries. When properly done, the patient would feel no pain during their surgery, but would not be totally unconscious. They would also saw cutting through the bone of his arm, but recalled no pain. Infection was the most common cause of death of injured soldiers.
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Wihelm Roentgen - discovered x-ray,
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Robert Koch - "father of microbiolgy" he discovered many disease-causing organisms - anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera
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Joseph Lister - identified that cause of materal infections and instituted hand washing.
Louis Pasteur - Rabies vaccine proved that microorganisms caused disease and discovered. -
Christian Barnard - In 1967, perfromed the world's first heart transplant suergery
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Alexander Fleming - discovered Penicillin, the first antibiotic. This was considered one of the most important dicoveries in the Twenties century.
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Jones salk - discovered an altered polio virus vaccine.
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clara Bartan - Angelm of the Battlefield she estblished the American Red Cross
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Medical event – A guy named John Joly develops a method of extracting radium and applying it in radiotherapy
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Medical event - Alexander Fleming – discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic. This was considered one of the most important discoveries in the twentieth century.
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Sigmund Freud - studied the effects of the unconscious mined on the body.
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Tissue cloning - is the process of creating an idntical copy of an original. Dolly the sheep was cloned
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Alber Sabin - creator of the oral polio vaccine, which was more effecive than salk's vaccine
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Florence Nightlinagle - started the first school of nursing during that crmean war and made nusing an honorrable profession
