The Evolution Of Medical Technology (By: Ke'Mora Campbell)
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- Have you ever wondered how medical technology has developed over the years? Or how it first started out?
- It's weird to think about not having yearly visits to the doctor or antibiotics isn’t it?
- But, there was a time when this was rare.
- but with the evolving effort of great thinkers, physicians, and scientists over the course of human history that we now have the medical industry that we rely upon today.
- Many early medical practices involved the use of dark magic in an attempt to ward off demons as well as diseases.
- During the late Egyptian dynasties was it when the first physicians began to emerge with a profession apart from religion.
- A Greek physician named Herodotus went on a visit to Egypt around the fifth century BCE.
- He took note of many of the practices among Egyptians that contributed to the health as well as the well being of their society.
- He took note of the advanced practices in their hygiene and cleaning practices.
- It was also observed that illnesses were treated by local healers who relied mainly on folk remedies.
- During dark times, disease was thought of as a punishment for sin. People believed healing only required prayer and repentance.
- YOU SINNER! Pray and repent for you shall be healed!
- The most well known disease of the Middle Ages were the Bubonic plague and leprosy.
- The industrial revolution was an age of rapid mechanical progress and steady invention.
- Science and technology continued to evole in the eighteenth century, where they helped bring relief to smallpox.
- We think we've found a cure!
- As more people moved into cities and began to work at large factories, the close proximity and poor living conditions promoted the spread of contagious diseases.
- It wasn't until the early twentieth century, at which time improved health and hygiene brought abut a steady decline in its morality rates
- You're good to go!
- On March 3, 1842, a long performed what would be the first recordedsurgical operation on an anesthetized .
- Technological and engineering advances have promoted the development of many devices that can be applied to medical problems.
- Because of the continued development of these technologies it was made possible to devise prosthetic replacements, block arteries, and veins and weak heart valves can be replaced.
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