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Evil Spirits
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Digitalis, Quinine, Belladonna and atropine, Morphine
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Health Records, Physicians and Priests, They used medicine to heal the disease. -
Still in common use today -
Greeks developed massage and herbal therapy’s, Hippocrates was the father of medicine -
The Roman’s were the first ones to organize medical care. They sent medical army equipment to help soldiers, physicians kept a room in their house for patients which started the hospital. -
The church believed life, and death was in gods hands, so they would not treat diseases.
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Epidemics caused many to die in the Middle Ages
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They built universities and medical schools. Disecgtion of the body was accepted for study. Books were being developed.
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
He discovered the fallopian tubes of the woman body -
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He discovered the circulation of blood -
He had discovered bacteria -
Manufactured and dispensed medicines -
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He had invented the lighting rod, bifocals and the Franklin stove. -
Led to better understanding of the causes of illnesses and death.
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Discovered the element oxygen, also observed plants that refresh air, making it usable for respiration. -
Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox. His discovery also led to immunization and pretentive medicine in public health -
Rene Laennec was a French physician and he invented the stethoscope. -
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She is a British nurse, social reformer and statistician. -
He had discovered that puerperal fever could be cut drastically if doctors washed their hands in chlorine. -
He had discovered that micro organisms cause fermentation and disease -
Dmitri Ivanovski had discovered viruses. -
He had found a way to prevent infection in wounds during the surgery and after the surgery. -
He introduced steam sterilization of instruments and dressings. -
He discovered the tuberculosis bacterium. -
Pioneering work in hematology, immunology and chemotherapy. Also the discovery of the first effective treatment for syphillis. -
He is the father of diagnostic radiology -
Insensitivity to pain, or the injection of drugs before surgical operations. -
He had discovered penicillin. -
He invented and developed the technique of psychoanalysis. -
Demonstrated in mice experiments that sulfonamides could be used to control bacteria that cause blood poisoning. -
Was the first to devise and implement a safe and effective vaccine against polio. -
His development of the oral polio vaccine. -
Discovery in 1953 of the double helix, the twisted ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). -
Led the team that preformed the worlds first human to human heart transplant. -
Led a group of 70 member surgical team that separated conjoined twins.