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Health and medicine over time - Coggle Diagram
Health and medicine over time
Before 1750
Prehistory
It was believed the illness had either supernatural causes
A period serious illness were treated by 'medicine men'
Greeks
The greeks thinked that the gods will cure the disease of the population and had temples for these gods
The doctor had a theory thay illness was caused by having an imbalance of the four humours in your body
Romans
Galen introduce the dissection to find out more about the human body
The romans also believe in the theory of the four humors
Middle ages
The doctors use different treatments for illneses for example: blessing the patient or use herbal medicine
In the mid-1340s the black dead spread from asia and europe, who killed the 40 percent of the population. During the epidemic of black death the "plague doctors" appeared for study the plague. The plague doctors use black clothes, a mask of crow with flower and perfume insade and a stick for didn't touch a infect patient
1700s
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
During the scientific revolution, modern science evolved into what we understand it to be today
From the 1600s scientists had been able to use a new invention for observation, the microscope
20th century
WWI
surgery
Broken bones were common and new techniques were tried to repaired them. Surgeons used skin grafts; indeed, their, work was the foundation for plastic surgery
Blood loss
In 1901 the mistery of why blood transfusions only worked for some patients was solved as different blood groups were identified
Doctors found that they could separate the liquid part of the blood, the plasma, for the corpuscles, for transportation
infections
Doctors need new forms for fight infections, and one of them is cutting away infected tissue and soaking the wound in saline had the best results
WWII
penicillin
It was discovered and worked by Alexander Fleming. The penicillin is used for fight bacterias in a infection or wounds. It was the key discovered in medicine on the 20th century
combating diseases
19th century
The impact of industrial revolution