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Health Care history
health care history notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Digitalis | from foxglove plants & used to strengthen and slow heart |
| Quinine | from bark of cinchona tree & controls fever and muscle spasms and treats malaria |
| Belladonna and Atropine | from poisonous nightshade plant & relieves muscle spasms especially gastrointestinal |
| Morphine | from opium poppy & relieves severe pain |
| Egyptian times | first to study diseases |
| Egyptian times | believed demons caused diseases |
| Egyptian times | embalming |
| Egyptian times | earliest to keep health records |
| Greek Medicine | 1st to study diseases |
| Roman Medicine | developed sanitation systems |
| Roman Medicine | aqueducts, sewers, and public baths |
| Dark and middle ages | terrible epidemics |
| Dark and middle ages | quarantine laws passed |