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Evil spirits -
Blood letting
Exorcism
Prayer and devine intervention -
Digitalis: Heart medication
Quinine:controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, prevent malaria
Belladonna and atropine: relieves muscle spasms
Morphine: pain killer -
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Egyptians were the first to track health records
Physicians = Priests
Healed by using medicines and bloodletting -
Development of acupuncture. Used stone tools. -
Illness cause Nature vs. Spiritual: exorcise Evil spirits. Superstitious about and wants gods to heal them.
Dissection: religious customs didn't allow for human dissections.
Hippocrates: father of medicine. Oath of Hippocrates. -
Sanitation Systems: Aqueducts were invented
Roman’s were the first to organize medical care
Hospital development: public buildings were used. Physicians wore a death mask filled with spies. -
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Life and death was determined by God -
Prayers and herbs -
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Millions of deaths. Uncontrollable diseases -
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Universities and med schools for research
Dissection can be used for study
Books can be published -
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Studied and recorded anatomy of the body -
Discovered Fallopian tubes -
Discovered the tube that leads from ear to throat. (Eustachian tube) -
Physiology and could describe circulation of blood and a pumping heart -
Invented the microscope -
prepared and sold medicines -
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Discovered Bifocals and that colds can be passed around -
Attended lectures in classrooms and observed patients at bedside -
Discovered the element oxygen and how it links to respiration. -
Vaccination for smallpox -
Invented stethoscope -
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Identified that physicians didn't wash their hands leading to puerperal fever. Meaning woman would die from infection after giving birth. -
Supported woman working as nurses, designed a hospital, and helped aid in war. -
Father of Microbiology. Microorganismos = everywhere. Found heating food kills bacteria. Created vaccine for rabies. -
discovered viruses -
First doctor to use an antiseptic (prevent infection) -
Developed asepsis. Meaning areas free of germs -
Discovered disease causing organisms. Supported cleanliness and sanitation. -
Made treatments to kill only the bad bacteria -
Discovered x-rays -
Before the nineteenth century, physicians used herbs, hashish, and alcohol to lessen the pain -
Found that penicillin killed very harmful bacteria -
Conscious vs unconscious part of the mind -
Discovered sulfonamide compounds. Meaning medicines to kill bacteria effectively. -
Dead polio virus = immunity to poliomyelitis -
Used a live polio virus vaccine to immunize babies -
Double helix model -
Preformed the first successful heart transplant -
Separates Siamese twins and preforms hemispheres -
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Better control of virus and effective single dose therapy -
Allows doctors to see what the brain looks like and what it does -
Smaller incisions and less pain -
chemotherapy and radiation therapy but also targeted therapy drugs -
Ability to replace a body part with a functional device