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Evil spirits
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Prayer, blood letting, excorisms, amputation
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Digitalis - for heart
Quinine - digestion
Belladonna and atropine - digestion
Morphine - pain -
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Called upon the gods to heal them and they used medicine to heal disease as well as using leaches and for the art of splinting fractures.
Earliest people to keep accurate health records
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They were the first to use the primitive acupuncture therapies and its still used today.
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They were the first to find out that diseases were natural rather than spiritual.
The religious custom didn’t allow bodies to be dissected.
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They found that disease was caused by a lack of sanitation
Romans were first to organize medical care
This was the beginning of hospitals -
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The church believed that life and death was in Gods hands
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They prayed to treat people
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It caused millions of deaths because of uncontrolled diseases
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Started universities and medical school for research
They accepted dissection for bodies for study
They started publishing books to get greater access to knowledge -
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He studied the anatomy of the body
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He discovered fallopian tubes
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Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat called the eustachian tube
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He was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
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He invented the microscope so that way they could see what the eye couldn’t
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They were used to trade in drugs and spices from the East
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He discovered bifocals and he found that colds are contagious
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Students had to attend lectures and go into a laboratory and observe the patients. They would dissect the body once they passed and observe the disease process.
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He discovered oxygen and that plants refresh air that has lost oxygen
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He discovered vaccination for smallpox which saved millions of lives
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Invented the stethoscope. It was /made of wood but increased the ability to hear the heart and lungs which allowed doctors to know if that person was sick
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He got people to go to the Nightingale School of Nursing
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He identified the cause of childbed fever which was from people not washing hands
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He proved that microorganisms were cause to disease
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He discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen by a microscope
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He became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery
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He developed a method to keep an area germ free before and during surgery
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He developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. He also introduced the importance of cleaning and sanitation to prevent the spread of disease
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He discovered medicine on disease causing microorganisms
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He discovered x rays
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when there was no anesthesia and so they would choke people unconscious and then they found there was some drugs created to put people to sleep for surgery
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He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
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He discovered sulfonamide compounds which were true first medications effective in killing bacteria
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Discovered the dead polio virus which would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
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He used a live polio virus vaccine to salks virus
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They discovered the molecular structure of DNA
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He performed the first successful heart transplant
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He separates Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies to stop seizures
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They learned to detect skin cancer with a hand held device
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A deep brain stimulation for strokes
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Doctors have enhanced recovery for before and after surgery such as not eating before surgery etc.
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Robots assisted any type of surgery or procedure using robotic systems
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They created a new combination drug for cystic fibrosis