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Evil spirits
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Prayer, exorcism, blood letting
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Digitalis, quinine, belladonna and atropine, Morphine
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Health records, priests as physicians, splitting fractures and blood letting with leaches to heal.
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Development of acupuncture:
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Illness cause Nature vs. spiritual:
First to study the disease and determined that it might be natural not spiritual.
Dissection:
Religious did not allow body’s to be dissected. Studied the anatomy from observation from the external body.
Hippocrates:
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Sanitation systems:
They found out that some diseases were caused from lack of sanitation. They brought clean water into their systems. Public baths with filtered systems.
Organize medical care:
They sent medical equipment and physicians with the army’s to care for someone if they got hurt. Payed by Roman government. They wore a death mask to keep away bad odors they believed.
Hospital development:
Ill people would stay in people’s houses and that was the start of the hospital -
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When Roman’s were conquered by the Huns the study of medicine stopped. They thought that life and death was in gods hands so they had no interest.
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They treated diseases with a medicine that had a herbal mixture.
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A lot of deaths were caused because of epidemics the bubonic plague alone caused 60 million deaths.
There were a lot more diseases that caused a lot of deaths. Some of those were not treatable but some you could get medicine. -
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Universities:
Building medical schools for research. Search for new ideas.
Dissection:
Accepted dissection to study bodies.
Books:
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Leonardo studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. -
She discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
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He discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat.
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He used his knowledge and discovered the circulation of blood and the pumping heart. -
He invited the microscope which helps with seeing things that are microscopic.
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They sold medicine and prepared them for the patients.
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He Discovered bifocals and found out that colds could be passed from person to person. -
Many discoveries required teaching medicine. Students not only attended lectures in the classroom. They also did laboratories and observed patients.
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Discovered the element of oxygen and observed that plants need fresh air, and it has a lot of oxygen.
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He’s discovered the method of vaccination for multiple diseases. He saved many of lives by finding this vaccination, and it led to immunization to prevent it in public. -
She invented the stethoscope it’s so you can hear the heart and lungs.
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Her family oppose for caring for the ill because of her culture. She convinced her father to give her money to gain experience for volunteering at hospitals during the Crimean war.
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Identify the cause of childbed fever a lot of women died from giving child birth. Dirty hand spreads a lot of diseases.
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He was known as The father of microbiology that discovered tiny micro organisms that were everywhere he proved that microorganisms caused disease. Also discovered that heating milk would kill bacteria. He created the rabies vaccine. -
He discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope at the time viruses were not studying until a electronic microscope, which was invented in Germany.
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He learned about pastor discovery that microorganisms cause infection and carblic acid on moods would kill germs. He became the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery, which helped prevent infections.
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He developed a method to keep an area for anti-germs free before surgery to keep bacteria away. -
Discovered many diseases causing organisms develop to culture to identify pathogens and isolated the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
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Discovered the effect of medicine diseases causing microorganisms. But it was not effective in killing other bacteria. His treatment was to try to cure syphilis.
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He discovered x-rays, he took the very first picture using x-rays. It was used to see inside the body. -
Anesthesia is a drug that helps put you under when you have surgery so you don’t feel pain. Back in the day they didn’t have anesthesia so you felt everything. With anesthesia doctors can do a lot more complicated surgery’s.
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Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria. Penicillin is considered one of the most important discoveries in the 20th century. before penicillin was discovered, people died of illnesses that were considered curable today, including pneumonia and blood poisoning, Gonorrhea.
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He discovered the conscious and unconscious of the mind. He determined that the mind and body work together. His study was the basis of psychology. -
He discovered sulfonamide compounds, which were the first medication effective and killing bacteria and killing deadly diseases.
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He discovered that dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis this virus, paralyzed thousands of adults and children, and it detected more athletic people. -
He he used life, polio viruses vaccines. That vaccine is used today still to immunized babies against this disease.
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They discovered the molecule structure of DNA known as the double helix. They explained how the DNA replicate’s and how hereditary information is coded on.
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He performed the first successful heart transplant. -
He separates Siamese twins and performs hemispherectomies surgery’s on the brain to stop seizures.
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Robotic surgeries help doctors perform very precise surgeries. Put da Vinci robot is one of the first robots that was improved in the 2000. These robotic surgeries are used for things like prostate, heart and gynecological surgeries.
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Doctors began using 30 printed body parts to make custom bones and teeth and skin bad for people.
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Immunotherapy cancer treatment is a Way to treat cancer by helping the bodies immune system fight it is used for many cancers.
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Healthcare is now not just about your actual health. It is about your physical health, your mental health, your social health, your spiritual health, your emotional health, which is a big advancement to just caring about your physical health. People now go see therapist chiropractors, and practitioners to suit their medical needs.
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Devices like Apple Watch and Fitbit are able to track like heart rate and Sleep and the amount of steps you take. These tools can help people stay healthy and fit. They can also alert you if there is problems with your health. -
The RSV vaccine was a very big thing during Covid to help fight the virus. And to prevent getting COVID the future.
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Nurses are now visiting patients at home. And when you have surgery, you get to go home a lot sooner than you did before because you’re more comfortable at home than in the hospital. People staying at home was a really big thing during the pandemic. So I was easier to just all and order medicine or whatever.