Galen used elements to explain illnesses and diseases. He said that your blood/air was hot and wet, yellow bile/fire was hot and dry, black bile/earth was dry and cold, and that phlegm/water was cold and wet. Galen called these ‘humors’, he said when you have a proper balance you were considered to be healthy and when you had an improper balance it was suspected that there was a disease present. In 1668 a man named Hermann Boerhaave was born.
The most important thing I learned about him was that he saved more than 20 people in the Lake Erie Mine. The legacy he left behind was his amazing inventions that are the basis of modern technology today. What surprised me the most about him was that his inventions are something we used to make modern technology. Studying him has affected my life because I now know that common things I use were made by him. My thinking has changed through learning about his story.
Doctors are prominent figures in many aspects of the world. They influence not only science, but history, math, art, religion, and even to politics. Horace Newton Allen was a medical missionary who went to Korea. Not only did he save thousand of lives, including those of a prince, but had managed to connect two countries, America and Korea. Horace first practiced his medical skills after gapsinjeongbyeon, when Prince Min Young Ik was badly injured.
His career in medicine really helped him capture the science behind these writings to make them feel real. (Kumbier
During the 1800s, physicians practiced various medical techniques, such as homeopathy and herbalism, while some physicians invented new techniques, like Electrotherapy. In the early 1800s, physicians relied on the "heroic" medicines for their medical treatments. Physicians classified the "heroic" medicines as treatments that would clean impurities from the body like purgation or bleeding by cup or by leech. For the people and physicians who did not agree with the "heroic" medicine, the development of other medical practices allowed them to deviate from the practices of the "heroic" medicines.
Science has changed our perspective of the world in many different ways throughout many different time periods. Medicine has advanced so much throughout the past decades. Joseph Lister in the late 1800s introduced new aseptic methods. His introduction of sterile medicine has saved many lives and lessened the chance of patients getting an infection called ward fever. Joseph was born April 5, 1827 in Essex, England.
For example, he knew how and where would be the most optimal placing for his building (The Doctor Who Treated the Insane), The Hartford Retreat in the 19th century. This helps us understand that not only is he a generous and knowledgeable guy, yet he cared for his patients like no other. It was said that he used especially gentle methods on his patients for this reason. Specializing in therapy, a one to one talk with the patient. (The Doctor who Treated the Insane).
Medicine men were able to help people repair the damage done to their spirits and mind and bodies. Medicine men
The era of medicine before the Civil War wasn’t beneficial. They had just started common practices and having few uneducated nurses. When entering the Civil War diseases and hygiene became a huge problem for the soldiers on the front lines since doctors had little knowledge about medicine. Amputation, Lewis Sayre, and diseases aided the construct of modern medicine from the Civil War. Amputation was a familiar use during the Civil War.
The Greek medical methods were just a diverse group of practices and ideas to try to help a patient (https://www.ancient.eu/Greek_Medicine/). What defined the Greek was their ethical medical values. For example, Hippocrates was a medical doctor who lived from 460 B.C.E. to about 377 B.C.E. He made famous the quote, "I will follow that [treatment] which, according to my ability and judgment, I will consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is [harmful]. I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such [advice]" (Document
Galileo Galilei It can be argued that there is another innovator or scientist during the Scientific Revolution that was the most revolutionary and impactful, however, Galileo was the most revolutionary and impactful mathematician and astronomer during the Scientific Revolution. This is true because Galileo completely changed the way that humans thought about and saw the world around them by discovering sunspots, the phases of Mars and Venus, the 4 moons that orbited Jupiter, and the principle of inertia. Galileo also proved the legitimacy of the Copernican system of Heliocentrism, which not only had effects in the field of science, but also in other fields, such as trading and how traders navigated the oceans. Therefore, Galileo truly changed
When people got sick they needed medicine, physicians, and health care. In the late 1500 there was not a great deal medican, there was mostly just spiritual analysis. One of the key figures of the medical world was Andreas Vesalius who became Professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Padua, when he was only twenty three. In most detail Vesalius showed that
During the Renaissance, the treatment of diseases and advancements is surgical procedures increased. The impact of technology also affected the way people were treated, medically, as well as how the survival rate of injured or sick people. The earliest “doctors” studied at the universities of northern Italy. Epidemic diseases became more common during this time period, diseases such as, the Bubonic Plague, smallpox, the pneumonic plague, and measles. The Renaissance was a time of discovery in the medical field and continues to grow today.
My father taught me that medicine that cares, cures, helps, and heals is of greater import than medicine that simply makes a diagnosis and prescribes a medication. I hope that one day, I will become a provider of the type of medicine that treats not only the body, but also the mind and
People who were skilled in herbalism used to make revolting potions that were sometimes made with fecal matter and urine to cure different types of sicknesses. An assumption that dog droppings was the cure for blindness. They would grind the dry droppings into powder and rub the powder inside of the blind eye. Medicine did not improve since previous periods. Hippocrates was separated into four different fluids yellow bile, blood, black bile, and phlegm.
