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They used things like morphine for pain and digitalis for the heart both of which we still use today
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They would hold ceremonies to try and rid the sick person of the bad spirits
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They believed that a person would become “clogged” when sick and would use leaches and/or bloodletting to “open” them up. Also used plants and some “magic” to treat diseases.
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They were priests that studied surgery from the temple books First one was possibly imhoptep
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religion prohibits dissection resulting in a poor understanding of the human body.
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believed that to heal someone they needed to treat the whole body and spirit, used things like acupuncture to keep the body's "Flow ways" clean and healthy
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20-30 years
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"the father of medicine"
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dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy
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25-35 years
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created aqueducts for clean water, built sewers, used filtering systems in public baths, and drained marshes to reduce malaria.
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first hospital style care with physicians caring for patents in rooms of there homes
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25-35 years
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they thought saving the soul was more important and focused only on that
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prayer and Devine intervention were used to cure the ill
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20-30 years
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physicians began to retain information at medical university's
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the bubonic plague (black Death) kills 3/4ths of the population of Europe and Asia.
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an Arab physician that became known as the Arab Hippocrates
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20-35 years
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the rebirth of science and medicine
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dissection of the body allows for a better understanding of the body and medicine
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artist Michelangelo and Da Vinci used dissection to draw very detailed drawings of the human body
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30-40 years
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diseases still not understood and many people died to them and baby fever.
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Ambroise pare, known as the father of modern surgery
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identified the fallopian tubes in a woman, as well as described the tympanic membrane in the ear
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35-45 years
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described the circulation of blood too and from the heart.
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invented the microscope
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early pharmacist, made, prescribed, and sold medications
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35-45 years
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created the first mercury thermometer
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prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to help with scurvy
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developed a vaccine for smallpox
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40-50 years
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first successful blood transfusion done by james blundell
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became the first female physician on the U.S
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the founder of modern nursing
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founded by Clara Barton
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discovered roentgenograms (X-Rays)
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40-60 years
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discovered penicillin
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the first heart lung machine was used in an open heart surgery
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first successful heart transplant - Christion Barnard
first successful kidney transplant - Joseph Murray
first successful lung transplant - James Hardy -
the cat scan or computerized axial tomography scan was invented
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the first "test tube" baby Louise Brown was born in England
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60-70 years
