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Both Morphine and digitalis are medicines still used today
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Supernatural spirits and demons
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20 years
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Believed the gods would heal them
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Priests that studied medicine were the physicians. Imhotep was the 1st.
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20 to 30 years
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Religions did not allow/believe in dissections. This resulted in a lack of knowledge about body structure.
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They believed you had to cure the spirit and nourish the body to treat the whole body
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20 to 30 years
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He is known as the father of medicine because: discovered a way to observe a human body, kept track of signs and symptoms of diseases, and created the Oath of Hippocrates (standard of ethics, still used.)
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Known as the founder of comparative anatomy, he dissected animals.
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25 to 35 years
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They built things to make the city cleaner; built aqueducts to bring clean water, built sewers to move away waste, filtered public baths, and drains marshes all to prevent diseases.
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First, they were rooms in the physician home; then they moved to monasteries and convents, when they became religious and charitable.
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25 to 35 years
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There main focus was saving the soul
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Prayer and divine intervention
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20 to 30 years
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In the 9th century physicians shared and gained knowledge at medical universities
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Around 3/4 of Europe and Asia’s population died from the bubonic plague.
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Known as the Arab Hippocrates he: diagnosed using observations and symptoms of diseases, found a way to distinguish smallpox from measles, suggested many infectious disease were caused by blood, and set a precedent for using animal guts for suture material.
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20 to 35 years
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People started exploring the science of medicine again
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Dissection of the body gave people a better representation of anatomy and physiology.
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Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci drew a more realistic representation of the human body
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30 to 40 years
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Still unknown
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Ambroise Pare, a French surgeon
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Identified the Fallopian tubes, explained the tympanic membrane of the ear.
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35 to 45 years
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Explained the circulation of blood in and out of the heart, 1628
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Invented the microscope
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An early pharmacists who: made, prescribed, and sold medications.
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35 to 45 years
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Invented the first mercury thermometer
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To prevent scurvy he suggested lime juice (contains vitamin C)
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Made a smallpox vaccine
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40 to 50 years
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Preformed by James Blundell, the first successful blood transfusion on humans.
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United States, first female physician
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Known as the founder of modern nursing, she: made fast and clean nursing units at the time of the Crimean war, founded Nightingale School and Home for Nurses, in London, and started professional education of nurses.
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Founded by Clara Barton
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Found roentgenograms/X-rays
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40 to 60 years
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Identified penicillin
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An open-heart surgery was performed by the first heart-lung machine
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- Done by Tomas Starzl, the first successful liver transplant in 1963
- Done by James Hardy, the first successful lung transplant in 1964
- Done by Christian Barnard, the first successful heart transplant in 1968
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Made in 1975, the Computerized axial tomography scan/CAT scan
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Louise Brown, born in England, was the first “test tube” baby.
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60 to 70 years
