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Evil spirits
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They used herbs and plants for medicine to treat sickness
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Digitalis is used in pill form or injection to help heart disease or slow down the heart
Quinine is from the bark of a tree and is used to treat fevers and prevents malaria
Belladonna and atropine are made from a poisonous plant and it helps muscle spasms
Morphine comes for opium poppy is used to help severe pain but is addictive These medicines were used in BC but are also used now. -
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The Egyptians were the first people to keep health records. The priests were also physicians in their time. They healed people who had wounds using leaches.
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The Acient Chinese people devolved acupuncture, as early as the Stone Age, by using stone tools. Acupuncture is still used today but advanced.
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The Greeks were the first to research and prove that illness was not always spiritual but also natural. The research they did got rid of superstition. Dissection was not allowed because of religion during this time. Hippocrates kept notes on symptoms and proved that disease was not caused by supernatural forces. He wrote the standard called the Oath of Hippocrates and that is still used today.
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The Romans used public baths with filters and used them as the first form of public sanitation. They sent physicians and medical equipment with armies for wounded soldiers. Physicians were paid by the government. Roman physicians kept rooms in their house for the ill; this was the beginning of hospitals.
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Medicine stopped because of the church’s beliefs. They believed the best treatment was prayer rather than medicine. They also believed that death was in God’s hands.
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They treated sickness with herbal mixtures and prayer.
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A disease affecting many people at one time that cause death EX: bubonic plague
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The medical schools began researching again. They also started to allow dissection again. Books began to be used for research.
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Recorded the anatomy of body for the first time
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He discovered the tube leading from the throat to the ear. -
Used his knowledge to understand physiology and describe the circulation of blood plus the pumping of the heart -
Invented the mircoscope -
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Discovered bifocals and also the way colds can be passed from person to person -
Students began to learn from not only in class lectures but real life dissection of dead bodies -
He discovered the element of oxygen -
Discovered a vaccine for smallpox -
Invented the stethoscope -
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Volunteered in hospitals and was the founder of modern healthcare
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Identified the cause of childbed fever -
Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere
“Father of Microbiology” -
Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms you cant see with a microscope
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First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery
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Developed asepsis
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He introduced the idea of cleanliness and sanitation to prevent disease and the spreading of disease
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Discover the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms, on his 606th experiment, he discovered a treatment that worked
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Discovered x-rays, took the first x-ray -
Loss of feeling or sensation
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Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria
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Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind, determined that the mind and body work together
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds
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Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
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Used a live polio virus vaccine that is still used today to immunize baby’s against the disease
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Discovered DNA and made a model
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Preformed the first successful heart transplant
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Separated Siamese twins
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- Possibility of eliminating disabling disease through genetic research
- The ability to reattach severed body parts
- The ability to transplant organs from donor to recipient
- The advancement of caring for an unborn fetus
- The ability to use noninvasive techniques for diagnosis