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Evil spirits
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Morphine
Ib prefen
Digitalis -
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Health records
Priests as physicians
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Development of acupuncture
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Illness caused nature vs spiritual - they thought that illness was more from nature
Dissection
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Sanitation systems
Organize medical care
Hospital development - they created the first hospital system -
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They stopped practicing medicine because they thought that life sand death was in Gods hands.
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They treated disease with prayer
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The Black Death killed 60 million
Smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis -
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New developments of learning for science
Universities
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
Discovered the fallopian tubes -
Discovered the tube leading form the ear to the throat -
Able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart -
Invented the microscope -
Early pharmacies
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Bifocals and found that colds can be passed from person to person
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Students attended lectures in a classroom and a lab and they observed patients bedside
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Discovered the element of oxygen
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Discovered the vaccination for smallpox
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Invented the stethoscope
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Discovered the cause of childbed fever
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Attracted women into her school of nursing
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Discovered that there were microorganisms everywhere and that they caused disease
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Discovered that some diseases were caused by things we cant see, called viruses.
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First doctor to use antiseptic in surgery
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Invented asepsis, the method to keep an area germ free before and during surgery
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Discovered many diseases and introduced the importance of cleanliness
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Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
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Discovered x rays
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Anesthesia was discovered to help people numb the pain of surgery
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Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
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Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain.
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds, which kills deadly diseases
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Discovered that dead polio virus would cure poliomyelitis
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Started using live polio virus vaccine which was more effective
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Discovered the structure of DNA
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Performed the first successful heart transplant
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Separates Siamese twins and performs hemispherectomies
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People can have fully functioning limbs that they might have lost or were not born with
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There is now a way to decrease the effects of the disease
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Over the past 10 years thearapies have been developed that kill cancer cells but leave healthy ones alone
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Scientists completed a genome of our DNA that now helps find cures for health conditions
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Advancements in the cardiovascular area have decreased the number of heart related deaths over the last 10 years