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Supernatural Spirits
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They performed ceremonies to exorcise the evil spirits. They also sometimes removed a part of the cranium and used herbs and plants.
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Foxglove plant in a pill form or through an injection. Quinine controls fevers, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria.
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They were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. Early Egyptians were priests who acted as physicians.
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They were first to use primitive acupuncture therapies. They learned to treat diseases and illnesses with stone tools.
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Medicine was considered an art not just a profession. They housed sacred temples of healing.
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The Roman’s were the first to organize medical care. They had rooms in their houses for the ill. The start of hospitals started here. The Roman physicians wore a death mask. A death mask had spices in the beak which the Roman’s thought protected them from infection and bad odors. -
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Church’s believed that life and death were in God’s hands. Therefore, they thought the primary treatment was prayer.
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Medications which were mostly made of herbal mixtures. They also thought that prayer was the main treatment.
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They created vaccines to stop all of these epidemics. The epidemics causes millions of deaths after deaths during this time. -
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They built universities and medical schools for research. The acceptance of dissection of the body for study was used. The printing press was developed.
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Leonardo Da Vinci studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. -
Gabriele Fallopius discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy. Hence the last name.
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He discovered the tube that goes from the ear to the throat. It’s called the Eustachian tube, coming from his last name.
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He described the circulation of blood and the heart pumping first. He was the one who knew it first.
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He invented the microscope, and established that there is life smaller than the eye can see.
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These were early pharmacies. In medieval England they engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the East.
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He discovered bifocals, and he found that colds can be spread from person to person. -
The students learning led to a better understanding of the causes of death and illness. Many more students started studying medicine.
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He discovered the element oxygen. He also found out plants refresh air that has lost its oxygen. Then found it was usable for respiration.
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He discovered the method of vaccination for a disease called smallpox. He saved many lives by discovering this.
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She invented the stethoscope. It was made out of wood.
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He found the cause for the childhood fever. He discovered that handwashing and cleanliness became practice to everyone.
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She was the founder of modern nursing. -
He is the founder of microbiology. He was the one to discover microorganisms. He also discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of all bacteria! Then, he crested the vaccine for rabies in 1885.
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He discovered viruses. For example, poliomyelitis, chicken pox, rabies, German measles, measles, mumps, herpes zoster, and influenza.
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He discovered using carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs that cause infection. This is called antiseptic. And he was the first one to use it. -
He developed aspesis. He discovered a method to keep areas germ free. For example, surgery.
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He discovered disease causing organisms. He introduced the importance of cleanliness to prevent diseases spreading all over.
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He discovered the effect of medicine on all sicknesses.
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He discovered x-rays.
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Physicians used to choked patients to make them unconscious for surgery to stop all pain. But, many of those patients died from shock and pain. During the 19th and 20th centuries ether, nitrous oxide, and chloroform were discovered. All of these drugs make people fall into a deep sleep so they feel no pain during surgery whatsoever. -
He discovered penicillin. It was one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century!
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He discovered the unconscious and conscious parts of the brain. He found out that the mind and body work together hence consciousness and unconsciousness.
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He discovered the first compounds in medications that were effective in killing all bacteria.
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He discovered the vaccine for a deadly poliovirus. The virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis.
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He discovered the live poliovirus vaccine. It is much more effective. -
They discovered the molecular form of DNA. Based on the double helix, their model explained how DNA shows our hereditary information coded within it.
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He performed the first successful heart transplant ever!
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He separates Siamese twins and continues performing hemispherectomies.
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The HPV vaccine was introduced in 2006 for all Americans to access. This has saved so many lives.
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A test from a sample of blood, urine, or even stool sample to search for cancer cells from a tumor or small pieces of DNA and RNA. -
If you use your phone, there is a higher rate of success compared with the normal and manual pacemaker.
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Scientists genetically modified pigs organs to be more compatible to human organs. And then, the surgery begins. This could be a change in the surgical process in the 21st century.
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This approach is possible! This will let people have long lasting healthy lives afterwards!