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-Evil Spirits
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-Perform ceremonies to remove evil spirits -
-Digitalis treats heart conditions
-Quinine controls fevers, relieves muscles spasms, and prevents malaria
-Belladonna and atropine relieve muscles spasms
-Morphine is to treat severe pain -
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-The Egyptians were the first to use health records. Priests acted as physicians
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-Treated illnesses and diseases with stone tools, their methods developed and are used today -
-First to discover that the cause of disease may be natural and not spiritual
-Religious custom didn’t allow body’s to be dissected.
-Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called to Oath of Hippocrates -
-Brought clean water through aqueducts
-First to organize medical care
-Romans physicians kept a room in their house for the ill -
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-Roman empire was conquered by the Huns
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-Primary treatment was prayer
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-Many epidemics caused millions of deaths
-Scientists discovered vaccines to control diseases -
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-Building of university’s and medical schools for research
-Acceptance of dissecting
-Development of printing press and publishing books allowed greater access to knowledge from research -
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-Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
-Discovered fallopian tubes of female anatomy -
-Discovered the Eustachian tube -
-Understood physiology
-Describe circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
-Invented the microscope
-Found bacteria that causes tooth decay -
-Early pharmacist
-Drug and spices trade -
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-Discovered Bifocals
-Found that colds could be passed on from person to person -
-Wider range of students studying medicine
-New way to teach -
-Discovered oxygen
-Observed that plants refresh air -
-Discovered vaccine for Smallpox
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-Invented the stethoscope
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-Identified the cause of childbed fever(puerperal fever)
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-Wanted effective training for nurses
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-Father of Microbiology
-Microorganisms are everywhere and cause diseases -
-Discovery of viruses
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-First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
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-Developed asepsis
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-Discover many disease causing organisms
-Introduced importance of cleanliness and sanitation to prevent disease -
-Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
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-Discovered X-rays
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-Have the ability to put people into a deep sleep during surgery
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-Found penicillin that killed lie threatening bacteria
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-Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
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-Discovered sulfonamide compounds
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-Discovered that a dead pop lo virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
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-Used live polo virus
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-Discoveded molecular structure of DNA
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-Performed first successful heart transplant
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-Separates Siamese twins
-Performs surgery’s on brain to stop seizures -
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Telemedicine
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-The Possibility of eliminating disease through genetic research
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-Ability to transplant organs from donor to recipient
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-Ability to reattach severed body parts
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-Use of handheld computers aid in diagnosis, accurate record keeping, and research