Health

• Anatomy was the first development in relation to the team of health. During the renaissance people started to learn about the human body. William Harvey discover the circulatory System (He discovered that blood was pumped around the body by the heart and not used by the organs).
• The quarantine practice in mediaeval Venice where ships were held for 40 days to prevent the spread of plagues represents the development in public health intervention, which lays the foundation for modern day quarantine (COVID 2020).

  • vaccines are the 3rd development. Add word Jenna created the first vaccine against smallpox in the 1700s. He discovered that when people are keeping a dose of cowpox a prevented them from getting smallpox.
• • The Public Health Act 1848 improved sanitation and housing, reducing deaths from diseases like typhus.
• • Louis Pasteur discovered germs caused disease in the 1860s.
• Josef Lister developed antiseptic surgery in the late 19th century.
• Health and Medicine in the Middle Ages

  Medieval Medicine: Based on Ancient Greek theories, particularly the four humours (blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm)
• • Treatments:
  • Bleeding: Cutting the patient to let them bleed.
  • Cupping: Heated metal cups on the skin to draw fluids.
  • Leeching: Using leeches to draw blood or fluids.
  • Amputation: Cutting off limbs.
• • Herbal Medicines: Commonly used.
  • Monasteries: Often functioned as the first hospitals.
• • Anatomy: Andreas Vesalius investigated anatomy and wrote "On the Structure of the Human Body," aided by the Printing Press for wide dissemination.
  • Dissections: Helped understand human anatomy.
  • William Harvey discovered the heart pumped blood around the body.
  • Surgical Improvements: Advances in anatomy led to better surgical methods.
• • 1967: CT Scan for detailed internal images.

  Later Medical Inventions

  • 1977: MRI for detailed organ and tissue images.
  • 1978: In vitro fertilization (IVF) for assisting pregnancies.
• • Blood Types: Discovery before WWI enabled blood transfusions.
  • Transplant Surgery: First kidney transplant in 1954, first heart transplant in 1967.