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Evil spirits
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Exorcises
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Herbs, plants, digitalis, quinine, Belladonna, atropine, and morphine.
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Accurate health records. They are superstitious. They used medicines and leeches. -
Treat illness and disease with stone tools. -
Research help eliminate superstition and developed massage and herbal therapies. -
Disease caused by lack of sanitation. Spice-filled beak believed to protect from infection and bad odors. -
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Believed life and death were in God’s hands.
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Primary treatments was prayer.
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Caused millions of deaths during this period.
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Many new developments during this period. Building of universities and medical schools, new ideas about disease, dissection, printing press and publishing of books.
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
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Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy.
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Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat.
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Knowledge to understand physiology and described the circulation of blood and the pumping if the heart.
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Invented the microscope and found bacteria that causes tooth decay.
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Engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the East.
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Discovered bifocals, and found that colds could be passed from person to person.
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Students attended lectures in the classroom, laboratory and also observed patients at the bedside. Disect and observe.
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Discovered the element oxygen. Plants refresh air making it usable for respiration.
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Discovered a vaccination for smallpox which led to the discovery of immunization.
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Invented the stethoscope, increased the ability to hear the heart and lungs.
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Volunteered in hospitals and designed a ward.
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Identified the cause of childbed fever. Not washing hands.
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“Father of Microbiology”. Discovered microorganisms cause disease and that’s getting milk preventing the growth of bacteria.
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Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that can’t be seen with a microscope.
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First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery which helped prevent infection in the incision.
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Developed asepsis. A method to keep an area germ-free before and during surgery.
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Discovered disease-causing organisms. Introduced cleanliness and sanitation.
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Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. Completed 606 experiments.
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Discovered X-rays in 1895.
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Kept people in deep sleep to not feel any pain. -
Found penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria.
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Discovered te conscious and unconscious parts of the mind.
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds.
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Discovered a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.
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Used a live polio virus vaccine which is used today to immunize babies.
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Discovered the molecular structure of DNA.
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Performed the first successful heart transplant.
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Pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies and surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.
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A doctor performing surgery on a patient that is not in the same location as the patient. -
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Helps cycling, walk-to-run, and climbing stairs. -
Improves light sensitivity and creates a sense of vision for people who have vision loss. -
Antiviral medications. -
A complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans.