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Greek civilizations used incantations and chanting to heal their sickly.
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A Greek physician Hippocrates used vinegar and wine to dress wounds, to act to as an antiseptic.
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Al-Razi was the first doctor ever who described symptoms and signs of smallpox and measles based on examination.
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Barber Surgeons were town barbers, and town surgeons. They often practiced blood letting, dental extractions, and amputations.
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Galen was a physician in the middle ages. He conducted dissections and vivisections on animals- usually apes- and how the learned a lot on how human body works. This helped in the Renaissance age, because his work was published.
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Renaissance hospitals housed not only the sick, but the poor, blind,insane,orphans, and travelers.
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Doctors usually cauterized wounds by pouring boiling water into them a doctor found that a combination of egg yolk, rose oil, and turpentine worked better.
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During this period cures for the black plague included placing a live hen next to swelling to draw out the pestilence. Also to quicken recovery, the patient was reccomenedto drink glass of their own urine twice a day, to eat theorgans of frogs, shaving a chicken and placing its bottom on the spots caused by the plague,and finally whipping themselves.
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Made the important discovery that the heart had two valves, by watching dogs die.
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The first doctor to discover a vaccination for smallpox.
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The stethoscope was invented by Rene Laennac
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A doctor discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and diseases.
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X-Rays were discovered by an experiment that put an electrical current through gas at a very low pressure.
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A scientist synthesized heroin and aspirin, to be used as a medicine,
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Willhem was the inventor of the elctrocardiogram.
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The heart lung machine was created, that was able to temporarily take function of the heart and lungs.
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The first heart pacemaker was created that controlled abnormal heartbeats.
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The first full body MRI machine was created.
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Doctors discovered genomes and for the first time we could read a complete set of human genetic information and begin to discover what our roughly 23,000 genes do.
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Barber Surgeons were not only the town's barbers, but also their surgeons. The barbers often used bloodletting, dental extractions, and amputations.
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Surgeries became more used in this era, and surgeries were done for tumors, hernias, and cesarean sections- though not all of them were often succesful.
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The first bypass heart surgery was performed by a doctor.
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Egyptian doctors often used drugs from minerals and herbs that were drunk with wine or beer, or mixed with dough to created a "pill". Egyptian doctors also used ointments for wounds, and the process of inhaling steam to alleviate pain in the chest.
