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Supernatural Spirits
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Exorcisms
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-Digitalis treats heart conditions
-Quinine controls fevers
-Belladonna and atropine relive muscle spasms
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Were the earliest people to keep health records and their priests were the physicians. They would use medicine and splinting fractures and bloodletting to heal.
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Developed acupuncture therapies to help treat illness -
Figured that illness is a natural cause and not spiritually caused. The greek named Hippocrates (The father of medicine) did dissection to study the human body.
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The Romans learned from the Greeks that poor sanitation can cause disease. So they implemented sanitation systems to keep people clean. The Roman’s also organized medical care and sent them along with their army’s. They also started organizing hospitals aswell.
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When the Huns conquered the Roman Empire they study of medicine stopped. From then on medicine was only practiced in monasteries because the church thought life and death was in gods hands.
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With prayer and herbal mixtures
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The Bubonic plague spread and killed 60 million people. Other diseases at this time included smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. -
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In this time universities and medical schools were built for research and dissection was finally fully accepted to study the human body. With the development of the printing press the publishing of books wide spread information everywhere.
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body.
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Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female body -
Discovered the tube leading from the ears to the throat
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Was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart
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Invented the microscope and found micro organisms that cause disease -
Started the first pharmacies
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Found that colds are contagious and invented bifocals
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Started learning in lectures and observed patients bedside to better understand medicine.
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Discovered the element oxygen -
Discovered the vaccination for smallpox
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Invented the stethoscope
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Identified the cause of childbed fever
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Founder of modern nursing
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The father of microbiology -
Found that viruses cause some diseases
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Created the first antiseptic to kill microorganisms to prevent infection
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Discovered asepsis
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Developed the culture plate method to help identify pathogens
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Found a chemical to treat syphilis and did more research on how medicine fights disease
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Discovered X-rays -
Puts the patient to sleep to make it easier to perform an operation
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Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
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Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
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Discovered sulfonamide compounds which helped in the killing of bacteria
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Discovered that polio affected the most active and healthy people
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Used a live polio vaccine to cure polio
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Discovered the structure of DNA -
Performed the first successful heart transplant
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Is the pioneer of separating Siamese twins and surgeries on the brain to stop seizures
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With bacteria becoming resistant to old antibiotics these new class of medication helps fight off bacteria that have grown resistant to some antibiotics
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With bionic prosthetics people now have the ability to regain a functional limb with a a device instead of a regular prosthetic -
With the organ transplant list being long and difficult to get artificial organs are a lot easier to get a hold of and implant into a patient
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This minimally invasive surgery used tides and small cameras to help provide a faster recovery time and less pain
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The Davinci robot is controlled by a surgeon that performs minimally invasive surgery that is clean and helps give a quicker recovery time