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Non invasive surgery
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setting of bones
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Dentistry
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Extensive Set of Pharmacopoeia
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The practice of dissection
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Average life span was 20-30 years
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Medications by herbal mixtures
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Custodial Care for sick people.
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- based diagnoses on observations of the signs and symptoms of disease.
- developed criteria for distinguishing between smallpox and measles in 910 AD
- suggested blood was the cause of many infectious diseases
- Began the rise of animal gut for structure material
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recipes that suggested chanting spells
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herbal medicines
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lancing
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cauterization
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cure for snakebites and mental illness
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Dloscorides: 5-volume Greek encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances
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Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic.
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known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia.
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new prescriptions
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Created new cures
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hippocratic texts
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greek natural philosophy
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Platos concept of a healthy diet
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Hippocrates detailed observations on how disease effected the body
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Homer's Illiad on the Trojan war and how people were treated during the fight
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-Prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illness and disease
-Emphasis was paced on saving the soul and the study of medicine was prohibited -
- established use of ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding
- Elimintaed use of boiling oil to cauterize wounds
- improved treatment of fractures and promoted use of artificial limbs
- identifies the fallopian tubes in the female
- described the tympanic membraine in the ear
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- established scientific surgical prcedures
- introduced tube feeding
- Dr. Jessee Bennet prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C
- Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals for glasses
- Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer
