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Understanding was base on spirits and gods. There was no real medical care, which allowed people to die much younger.
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Started to use papyrus along with a better understanding of the human body. They used to believe that the body had 42 blood channels that get blocked by not digesting food right, and that is why you got sick.
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Patients would get better through rest and relaxation. They still believed that religion is the only form of medicine and that is why it was done at a temple.
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The Roman Empire aqueducts, public baths, sewers and drains. Water commissioners were created to allow a good supplies of clean water into the city. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkBfFQ7efqk
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Europe and Britain both returned to Pre-historic times.
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Europeans went on crusades, their doctors gained first hand knowledge in Arab medicine that was advanced by Western standards.
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People had no idea how the plague started. They thought it was caused by Jews, the planets, or by God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boMzFm7I1zs
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Proved that Galen was wrong regarding to the jawbone and how blood flows through the septum in the heart.
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Ambroise Paré was the person to create the ligatures to stop bleeding before and after surgery. It helped prevent infections.
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William Harvey proved that blood flows all around the body. This was done by arteries and is returned through the veins
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Inoculation was first used in Europe, which was brought over from turkey.
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Edward Jenner discovered the vaccination for smallpox. This was by using cowpox to fight the smallpox.
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Humphry Davy was the person to discover the pain killing attributes of Nitrous Oxide.
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Queen Victoria advocates for the use of chloroform after having her eighth child.
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Doctor qualifications had to be regulated in the medical council.
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Germ Theory was created by Louis Pasteur while he was trying to find a way to keep beer and wine fresh. This changed the whole understanding of how illnesses worked.
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Joseph Lister started using Carbolic Spray during his surgeries to fight off infections. This caused a 35% decrease in the number of deaths he had while doing surgery.
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Wilhelm Roentgen discovered the use of X-rays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtX3rYJASik
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This was when a scientist first discovered that there were different types of blood types.
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This was when they first discovered skin grafts for treating patients with shelling.
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This was when penicillin was finished being made. During the drop of D-day every soldier was equipped with it in their first aid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgQBwZxTt64
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The NHS was created during this time. They estimated the cost would be $140 million and year in 1950, but was actually $358 million by 1950.
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This was when the first open heart surgery was, along with the first kidney transplant.
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The patient lived for 18 days after.
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The increasing use of keyhole surgery using endoscopes allowed minimal invasive surgery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgyPft0Dm2A
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