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Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Treat whole body by curing spirit
Herbal medications and accupuncture -
Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE
Hippocrates believed illness was from natural causes
Used therapies such as massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment -
Period: 753 BCE to 410
First to organize medical care by providing care for injured soldiers
Galen established belief that the body was regulated by four body humors; blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile -
300 BCE
Illnesses werecaused by evil spitits
they used hebs and plants as medicine -
300 BCE
physicians were priests
blood letting and leeches were very common -
Period: 400 to 800
saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited
Monks and priests provide custodial care for sick people -
Period: 1220 to 1255
Medical Universities were established
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1543
first anatomy book
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invention of microscope
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John Hunter established scientific surgical procedures
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first open heart surgery
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ABO blood discovered
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first heart transplant