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Evil spirits
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Preformed ceremonies to exorcise evil spirits.
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Digitalis is now used to treat heart conditions and is given by pill form, intravenously, or by injections. Quinine is used to control fever, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria. Belladonna and atropine they help relieve muscle spasms in gastrointestinal pain. Morphine treats severe pain
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They were the earliest people to keep health records. Physicians used medicines to heal diseases and they also learned the art of splinting. They healed by using bloodletting.
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They were the first people to use acupuncture to treat diseases and they did this by using stone tools.
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Physicians were the first to study causes of disease and they determined that disease comes from a natural cause rather than a spiritual cause. In the accident time the religion did not allow people to dissect bodies. Hippocrates was the father of medicine and he studied the external body which then later the Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called the oath of Hippocrates.
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They created sanitation systems by brining clean water into their cities along with building filtering systems. They were the first to have organized medical care and they did this by sending medical and equipment with physicians with the army. Roman physicians kept a room in their house for the ill which was the start of hospitals.
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Caused millions of deaths
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The building of universities and medical schools for research. Dissection became accepted. As printing came out they started printing books to allow larger access to knowledge.
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Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body
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Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy
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Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat
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Used this knowledge to understand physiology and then was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart
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Invented the microscope