PEDS-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cranial Nerves, Comparative Anatomy, Analgesic
4 Apr 2016
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Requisite to any study of the human animal. Anatomy and physiology: anatomy - cut up , based on observaion, physiology the nature of , based on observaion and experimentaion. First anatomist was prehistoric man: knew the vital organs to kill animals, knew what they could and could not eat, knew that an animal would bleed to death, knew that broken bones would heal, ancient surgical skills. Trepanaion: drilling a hole in the head. Deine the organ that consituted the soul. Egypians embalmed the dead: considered a mysic art and not recorded. Chinese: herbalists and acupuncture, remedies for diarrhea, menstrual pain and consipaion, opium was prescribed as a painkiller, litle western inluence. Japanese: publicaion of the kaitai shinsho in 1774, dutch inluence. Grecian period: first accounts are in homer"s iliad , speculaion that the irst dissecions were performed (human sacriice, descripion of clean wounds (inlected in batle, human sacriice may have served as subjects.
