Significant Facts of the History of Medicine

Medicine has a rich history. With the advent of new medical methods in medical science over the ages, it has reached this stage today. The 2nd episode of our article with significant information on this rich history of medicine from ancient enemas to tapeworm doctors.

*Prehistoric people have smuggled weapons like holes in their heads:

 In 1865, the American archaeologist Ephraim George Squire studied an ancient Mexican skull. There was a rectangular hole in the front of the skull in 1400-1500 BC. Squire and the New York Academy of Medicine and the French neuroscientist Paul Broca completed the study together. After the investigation, they said, the hole was intentionally made in the skull while the man was still alive.

One study found evidence of such rectangular grooves in skulls in many civilizations. But why did they do that? What is the reason behind this? According to Broca, the people of these ancient civilizations did this to protect themselves from ghosts.

This is a theory that is still popular today. However, this culture of the nineteenth-century indigenous peoples is completely unscientific. However, it is also possible that this trapping is an effective method of treating fractures. This method was used to remove the broken bone of the patient in case of any head injury if the patient did not die within it.

Ancient Egyptian hardman of the Anus:

 In ancient Egypt, diseases were treated with a mixture of religion, magic, and science. Priests usually performed the duties of physicians and were also magicians. After decoding the hieroglyphs of the early 19th century, a general idea of Egyptian medicine was obtained. Physicians had pharmacopeia rich in herbs and minerals.

Prescriptions included pills, ointments, enemas, inhalations, and details of ingredients and preparations. Erenkhati was the only doctor skilled in managing these enemas. He lived around 2150 BC. He was a doctor of the palace and also held the posts of Nehru Pehut and Hardman of the Anus.

Plastic surgeons were able to give new noses in the history of medicine:

Plastic surgeons tried to restore the nose to its former condition when the nose was broken for any reason due to illness, war, or fight. The Indian surgeon Sushruta (600 BC) used a plant leaf to remove the skin from a patient's cheek. It was attached with a strip called a pedicle.

If it was twisted, the surface of the wound would move downwards. Sushruta would put it in the place of the missing nose and a small tube in the place of the nose. A similar method was re-emerged in Renaissance Italy. Surgeons discovered methods to create new noses from the skin of the arm of a patient with bronchus and vanilla. However, surgeons kept this procedure a secret. In 1597, gaspare tagliacozzi., a professor of anatomy in Bologna, published the method in "De Cartoram chirugia par incisionem". His goal was to describe rhinoplasty in a scientific way so that other surgeons could learn by reading it.

Smoking is good for health:

Cigarettes and health are two completely two polar words. Nineteenth-century medical cigarettes for asthma are part of a long history of inhalation therapy that can be seen in today's inhalers. Concepts about the causes of asthma have changed over the centuries. After the old ideas changed, the use of herbal smoking as an inhalation began.

In the late eighteenth century, asthma was considered a "nervous" disease caused by bronchial spasms in Datura stramonium. began to be used in acceptable medical procedures. Initially, stramonium was filled into ordinary tobacco pipes and used for smoking. . Smoking became socially acceptable in the mid-19th century with the introduction of cigars and later cigarettes.

Doctors advised smoking to keep the breathing caused by asthma normal, and this began to benefit commercial cigarette companies. The spasmodic model of asthma in the early twentieth century gave the idea of allergic inflammation and reduced the usefulness of smoking in treatment. At the same time, new drugs such as ephedrine began to be used as an alternative to potential hallucinogenic stramonium.

The first African-American female physician to receive a degree during the American Civil War:

Rebecca Crumpler.. became the first African-American female physician to receive a degree. She dedicated her life to improving the health status of poor blacks, especially women and children. She was born in 1831 to Rebecca Davis of Christiana, Delaware. He married Watley in 1852 in The first African-American female physician to receive a degree during the American Civil War

Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American female physician to receive a degree. She dedicated her life to improving the health status of poor blacks, especially women and children.

She was born in 1831 to Rebecca Davis of Christiana, Delaware. He married Watley in 1852 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and settled there permanently. There she worked as a nurse for local doctors. These employers assisted her to be admitted to the New England Women's Medical College. In 183 her husband died of tuberculosis.

However, she continued her studies and graduated the following year as a Doctor of Medicine. She continued her practice in Boston, where she married Arthur Crumpler in May 185. He is now remembered as Rebecca Lee Crumpler but does not appear to have used the name Lee after his second marriage. Sadly, no identifying photos of him were found.

As soon as the American Civil War ended, Crumpler moved to Richmond, Virginia, to work for the Freedman's Bureau. It is a government agency to help free slaves and poor white people in the former Confederate state. Despite her degree, she is listed on the record as a nurse and receives a salary of ড 10 per month.

One of the earliest published books by African-American authors was his book, A Book of Medical Discourse. This book was published especially for female readers. Crumpler realized that knowledge was power and that it would play a role in protecting the health of women and their children.

Charlestown, Massachusetts, and settled there permanently. There she worked as a nurse for local doctors. These employers assisted her to be admitted to the New England Women's Medical College. In 183 her husband died of tuberculosis. However, she continued her studies and graduated the following year as a Doctor of Medicine.

She continued her practice in Boston, where she married Arthur Crumpler in May 185. He is now remembered as Rebecca Lee Crumpler but does not appear to have used the name Lee after his second marriage. Sadly, no identifying photos of him were found in the history of medicine. As soon as the American Civil War ended, Crumpler moved to Richmond, Virginia, to work for the Freedman's Bureau.

It is a government agency to help free slaves and poor white people in the former Confederate state. Despite her degree, she is listed on the record as a nurse and receives a salary of ড 10 per month. One of the earliest published books by African-American authors was his book, A Book of Medical Discourse. This book was published especially for female readers. Crumpler realized that knowledge was power and that it would play a role in protecting the health of women and their children.

A tapeworm doctor who can help get rid of parasites in your body

Beef tapeworm, Tenia saginata can grow up to 20 meters long in the human intestine. Another companion is a pork tapeworm. They absorb nutrients from the digestive tract and can live peacefully for years until their host decides to expel them.

It was a lucrative career for those who practiced tapeworm treatment in America in the early 19th and early 20th centuries. While the history of tapeworm experts did not greatly influence the history of medicine, it did reveal a picture of health care for the rural community at the time.

When treated with worm medicine, you need to fast for a day to get rid of the parasite. Then add 1 teaspoon of male fern oil to a cup of hot milk. Then you have to lie down for a few hours. Then a mixture of castor oil, turpentine, and croton oil should be consumed. It is a deadly laxative. The effects are easy to imagine.

Plague attacks and health inequalities in the early twentieth century

Although the word "plague" sounds medieval, the memory of the world's third plague epidemic has not yet been forgotten. Although the previous epidemic affected everyone indiscriminately, it did more harm to the poor and created global health inequalities.

The third pandemic struck China in the 1850s and crossed international borders in the 1890s. In 1894, rats carrying plague from Hong Kong boarded colonial ships to spread around the world and breed. This spreads deadly bacteria among the inhabitants of every continent.

Alexandre Yarsin and Kitasato Shibasaburo found the bacteria in the same year (1894). In 1898 Paul Lewis Simmons was able to insert a vector or transmitter into the body of a rat. As the disease spread to international ports, public health workers isolated infected patients from the general public to reduce the spread of the disease.

The political instability in India began as a result of the drastic measures taken by the British government in the history of medicine. As the source of the disease was in China, the United States began to show an anti-Asian attitude. When the plague reached Cape Town via Argentina in 1901, black dockworkers were the first to be attacked. The colonial government of South Africa forced the victims out of the city through the armed forces.

The third epidemic killed about 15 million people, most of them in Africa and India. Although the epidemic was brought under control in 1959, the plague was never completely eradicated.

Although many diseases have been cured due to medical science, it has not been possible to eradicate them. Hopefully, epidemics like plague or corona can be completely eradicated in the future. Medical scientists are conducting extensive research to eradicate these in the history of medicine. It is hoped that with the advancement of science, medical science will also improve, and at some point antidote to all these terrible diseases will be discovered