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Originating from ancient times, the method was called trepanning. In medieval times it was practiced as a cure for various illnesses: epilepsy, migraines and various mental disorders for instance. Trepanning was used as late as the 20th century as a medical technique.
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Situated in Canterbury Cathedral, Saint Thomas Becket’s tomb became the most popular shrine in England during medieval times. It was also much easier to reach than making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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Surgeons used a painful process called ‘needling’. With no anaesthetics, the doctor inserted a needle into the edge of a person’s cornea.
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Originating from ancient times, the method was called trepanning. In medieval times it was practiced as a cure for various illnesses: epilepsy, migraines and various mental disorders for instance. Trepanning was used as late as the 20th century as a medical technique.
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The ancient Greek physician Galen became referred to as the “Medical Pope of the Middle Ages” while Hippocrates was also important.
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Born in 1578, William Harvey was a doctor in England. He became the first doctor to ever describe properly how the human circulatory system properly worked. He also described the blood properties and how the heart worked to circulate the blood around the body. He died in 1567.
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by 1350, the average life expectancy was 30–35 years, and 1 in 5 children died at birth.
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They published new editions of Greek and Roman books, including nearly 600 editions of Galen’s books.
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About 1620 Peter Chamberlen invented the obstetrical forceps, used to free a baby from the womb during a difficult birth without hurting or killing baby or mother.
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The first English handbook by a woman was The Midwives Book by Mrs Jane Sharp in 1671.
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The early hospitals were primarily almshouses, one of the first of which was established by English Quaker leader and colonist William Penn in Philadelphia in 1713.
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Presenter Dan Cruickshank has an infectious, donnish enthusiasm and joie de vivre that television producers obviously believe lends popular appeal to subjects that some viewers might otherwise consider dry as dust. In the latest episode of What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us, Cruickshank brought his straightforward storytelling and capacity for wonder to bear on the earliest controlled medical trials and the birth of modern medicine.
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Introducing us to the achievements and discoveries of the likes of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner, James Lind, who discovered the cause of scurvy, and William Withering, who is credited with introducing digitalis to medical science
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The oldest such school is the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1765.
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In the mid-18th century the average life expectancy was 36
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A Dutch doctor and physiologist called Willem Einthoven invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG).
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Willem J. Kolff, a Dutch doctor, built the world's first dialysis machine. He later pioneered artificial organs.
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At the end of the 19th century, 30 percent of deaths were due to infection
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The MMR vaccine is a mixture of live weakened viruses of the three diseases. The MMR vaccine was developed by Maurice Hilleman. It was licensed for use by Merck in 1971.
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Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), a chemist and microbiologist from France, was one of the founders of medical microbiology.
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In 2000, scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public.
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"The drop in death rates from HIV in the developed world (is) due to improved medications," Coates said. "There was the 10 percent drop in deaths due to HIV in the US between 2006 and 2007."
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"In 1998/2000 the American Heart Association set a decade-long goal to reduce coronary heart disease and stroke and risk by 25% by 2010. We actually realized this goal by 2008 and have seen continued improvements in the reduction of deaths due to coronary heart disease and stroke," said Clyde Yancy, MD, of Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. "As of today, we have seen a near 40 percent reduction in death due to coronary artery disease since 1998/2000.
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In 2011, the first immunotherapy drug was approved by the FDA for advanced melanoma.
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In 2013, Japanese researchers succeeded in creating a functional human liver from stem cells
