Prehistoric people believed that life and the functions of the body were determined by the spirits. Trephining. Broken Bones would be in cased in mud. Shamans. Herbs used in treatment, little knowledge about the inner body.
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Egyptian
Channel Theory. They believed that life was created by the gods. Crucial breakthrough in the history of medicine,it led doctors to abandon purely spiritual cures for illness, and instead to try practical cures designed simply to unblock the channel.
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Greek
Four Humours. Natural theory of the cause of disease. Hippocrates. Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. bleeding and purging not, as the Egyptians, to unblock a channel, but in order to rebalance two of the humours-the blood and the black bile
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Roman
Galen- Dissected Animals, Realised that the nervous system takes messages to the brain. They could perform external operations. Asklepion (supernatural)
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Middle Ages
The knowledge gained by the ancient Greeks and Romans was largely lost to Europeans, and superstition reigned. Barber-surgeons carried out operations.
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Renaissance
Vesalius- Said blood does not pass through the septum. William Harvey- Proved that blood circulates round the body, and described how it happened.
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18th Century
Women Doctors, Florence Nightingale,Public Health Act, Small Pox
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19th Century
Chain, Florey, Sewers, Flemming, Penicillin, Clean Water, Germ Theory
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20th Century
Bevan, NHS, X-ray, Blood Transfusions, National Insurance Act, Nurses, Plastic Surgery
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Channel Theory. They believed that life was created by the gods. Crucial breakthrough in the history of medicine,it led doctors to abandon purely spiritual cures for illness, and instead to try practical cures designed simply to unblock the channel.
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