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Egyptians used the Eye of Horus in gold and silver jewelry as a sign of protection.
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Ancient civilizations used trepanation, a method where people would drill holes in patients’ heads to cure them from evil spirits, headaches, blood clots, and other diseases.
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Jewish physicians used natural remedies and oils as medicine.
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Hippocrates was the first to prescribe a form of aspirin that relieved headaches and muscle and joint aches.
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Public baths were created so that not just the rich could have personal hygiene to prevent diseases and epidemics. There was a small fee to get in because they felt it would help people to regain good health.
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The Romans were the first to drain marshes to rid areas of malaria carrying mosquitoes. This fixes the problem of people getting diseases from mosquitoes.
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Monks and priests provided custodial care for sick people which provided the foundation for our clinics and hospitals in years to come.
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Herbs and plants were used as medicine and during this age the people were the first to use morphine from opium poppies.
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Temples built in Aesculapius honor functioned as centers of medical advice, prognosis, and healing. At these shrines patients enter a dreamlike state of induced sleep not unlike anesthesia. During this the people either received guidance from a deity or were cured by surgery. These temples also provided carefully controlled spaces conducive to healing and fulfilled several requirements of institutions created for healing.
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Imhotep diagnoses and treats 200 diseases. He also did surgery, dentistry, knew about body systems and was very advanced for his age.
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Alcmaeon of Croton found the difference between veins and arteries
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Jews used the practice of circumcision to purify a male.
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William Harry, the first person to properly describe the systemic circulation and properties of blood, which is pumped around the body by the heart. Girolamo Fracasturo, created the idea that epidemics may be caused by pathogens from outside the body that my be passed on from human to human by direct or indirect contact.
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The first blood transfusion experiment, transferring blood from one dog to another. .
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James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. Marie Francois Bichat realized that diseases attacked tissues rather than whole organs.
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Ignaz Semmelweiss told doctors to wash their hands before touching their child patients, this reduced childbed fever rates in new mothers
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First C- section performed with anesthesia at St. Bartholomew’s hospital in London. The baby survived but the mother died two days after surgery
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Karl Landsteiner(Austrian-American) found that blood types are compatible or they’re not compatible. Received the 1930 Nobel prize for Physiology or medicine for his discovery
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First insulin was used to treat people with diabetes
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Jonas Salk Thomas Francis develop the first vaccine for influenza. The first vaccine was used to help the U.S. soldiers in World War II
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The cardiac pacemaker that controls irregular heartbeat was invented by Paul Zoll.
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human heart transplant. They took the heart of a 25 year old woman who had died in a car accident and gave it to Louis Washansky who was dying from heart damage.
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First vaccine for chicken pox.
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First vaccine for pneumonia
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First vaccine for meningitis(acute inflammation of membranes that protect the spinal cord and brain
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World Health Organization announced that smallpox died out
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First record of smallpox by Rhazes.