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Health and Sanitation System
Romans were trying to find a way of disposing of the rubbish to prevent pollution causing health problems. -
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Emphasis
Was during the dark It was during the Dark Ages. Monks and priests treated patients with prayer, they put an emphasis on saving the soul and prohibited the study of medicine. -
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The Father Of Medicine
He based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body. He held the belief that illness had a physical and a rational explanation. He rejected the views of his time that considered illness to be caused by superstitions and by possession of evil spirits and disfavour of the gods. -
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Dissection to draw human bodies
Leonardo da Vinci was the first human to ever dissect a human body to draw it's organs in it. Has has many well know drawing of human parts and there organs. He soon wanted to start dissecting live human and see how it work. -
Circulation of the blood to the heart
No one really knew how the blood flow to the heart and in the 17th century a man by the name of William Harvey started to dissect people and see how the blood was being pumped to the heart. -
Thermometer
Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first thermometer. It divided the freezing and boiling points of water into 180 degrees. 32°F was the freezing pint of water and 212°F was the boiling point of water. -
Independence Day
A national holiday celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. -
Vaccine for Smallpox
Edward Jenner developed the world's first vaccination as a preventive treatment for smallpox, a disease that had killed millions of people over the centuries.. Many scienctist followed Jenner's model to care other diseases such as polio, whooping cough, measles, tetanus, yellow fever, typhus, and hepatitis B, and many others. -
Earliest Accurate Health Records
They are known for the first people ever to have the earliest records of a health records. -
Patterns of Heredity
Inheritance patterns trace the transmission of genetically encoded traits, conditions or diseases to offspring.
Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendel tracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits. -
Disinfectants and Antiseptics
Joseph Lister starting to use Disnfectant and antiseptics during surgrey on his patients to help from decaying and infections. -
Founder of Nursing
Florence Nightengale was the founder of nursing. She treated soidlers during the Crimean War, Nightingale's achievements in the Crimean War had been exaggerated by the media at the time, to satisfy the public's need for a hero, but her later achievements remain widely accepted. professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. -
Civil War
A war between citizens of the same country.
There was a lack of water, basic supplies, drugs, and most of all: time. Many wounds were not sterlized well most times they would use doors as medical beds for the wounds.
Dr. J.B. Fontaine, of the cavalry corps of the ANV, was killed in the line of treating a wounded soldier, Dr. E.S. Galliard had to have his arm amputated after being wounded treating Joe Johnston. Many medical officers, including Jonathan Letterman, died young. -
Pasteurize milk to kill bacteria
Heating liquids like milk to a temperature that was slightly below boiling and keeping it at this temperature for a certain time, you could eliminate harmful bacteria.
Louis Pasteur discovered this idea of heating it to kill it and now it is named after him. -
American Red Cross
Dedicated to helping people in need throughout the United States and, in association with other Red Cross networks, throughout the world. Generous contributions of time, blood, and money from the American public to support our lifesaving services and programs.
Clara Barton and a circle of her acquaintances founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Barton led the Red Cross for 23 years and support United States military during the Spanish-American War. -
Culture Plate
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Discover X-Ray
Amazing step forward in the history of medicine. For the first time ever, the inner workings of the body could be made visible without having to cut into the flesh.
Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Worzburg, Bavaria, was the first person to discover the possibility of using electromagnetic radiation to create what we now know as the x-ray. -
Isolated Radium
Radium was isolated in its metallic state by Marie Curie and André-Louis Debierne through the electrolysis of radium chloride in 1910 -
World War 1 (WWI)
World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers
Lieutenant Andrew Green wrote to friends in Raleigh praising the stretcher-bearers who carried him over one mile through enemy shell fire after he was wounded in the leg. -
Discover of Penicillin
Alexander Fleming had a mold that had contaminated the experiment turned out to contain a powerful antibiotic, penicillin. However, though Fleming was credited with the discovery, it was over a decade before someone else turned penicillin into the miracle drug for the 20th century. -
World War 2 (WW2)
Global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945 which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.
Good things that penicillin was discovered in 1928 and finally used in 1945 for a medician by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain with reseach. -
Acupuncture
Acupuncture were used to relieve pain and congestion. They were first used by the chinese 6000BCE. -
Polio Vaccin
Jonas Salk was the first person to ever test out this vaccin and it worked. -
Animal parts for suture material
Rhazes has also been credited with being the first to use animal gut for sutures and plaster of Paris for casts.
