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Caused by super natural spirits -
Preformed an exorcism/asked gods to heal them and they also used plants and herbs as medicine's -
Chewing leaves of a foxglove plant which slows the heart beat ,quinine which controles fever and relives muscle spasms, belladona and atropine which relieve muscle spasms and morphine which treats severe pain. -
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Earliest to keep accurate health records, priests were physicians, they used medicines to heal diseases they also used bloodletting -
First to use primitive acupuncture therapies -
-Medicine was considered an art not a profession
-first to think that illness might have natural causes not spiritual ones
-they researches and studied the body and understood the importance of it
-hypocrates wrote the standard of ethics -
- They were the begging of hospitals
- 1st to start organizing things
- they sorted out the ill and put them in separate rooms
- they wore a death mash which they think protected them
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They thought that illness has nothing to do with natural cause and they all thought it was in the hands of god so they stopped studying medicine -
-praying was the primary resolution -
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Plague, smallpox,diphtheria,syphilis, and tuberculosis caused millions of deaths -
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-New developments
-rebirth of learning
-building of university’s and medical schools
-search for new ideas about diseases
- development of books and printing press -
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
Discovered the Fallopian tubes of the email body -
Discovered the tube going into the ear and the throat -
Describes the circulation of blood pumping into and out of the hear -
Invented the microscope -
Traded drugs and spices -
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-Found that colds can be passed to person to person
-discovered bifocals -
New ways of teaching medicine
Students would attend class to learn
This lead to the understanding of death -
Discovered the element oxygen -
Discovered a vaccination for smallpox -
Invented the stethoscope -
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Identified te cause of childbed fever -
She took in 38 women to care for soldiers, she also volunteered at hospitals -
Discovered that microorganisms were everywhere. He also discovered that pasteurization kills bacteria in milk. He also created the vaccination for rabies. -
Discovered that some diseases were caused by microorganisms/ viruses -
He used carbonic acid to kill germs that caused infection in wounds. First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery -
Developed asepsis. -
Discovered many disease- causing organisms. Introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation to prevent spread of disease -
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing organisms -
Discovered x-rays -
They put people into deep sleep during surgery so they don’t have pain. We use this today -
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind and studied the the effects it had on the body -
Discovered sulfonamide compounds. -
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. -
Used a live polio virus vaccine -
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Separated Siamese twins and performed hemispherectomics to stop seizures -
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-Gene Therapy for Hemoglobinopathies
-the ability to transplant organs from a donar to a recipient
-the ability to reattach served body parts
-Anti-Smoking laws and Campaigns Reduce Public Smoking
-the advancement in caring for the unborn fetus