NURS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Insulin, Sick Individuals, Orthopedic Surgery
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Caitlin richardson the aacn. and evaluation of patient care. Magic, religion, evil spirits in the body needed to be casted out, sacri ces, offerings. Egypt: first to use the concept of suture for repairing wounds. Hebrews develop mosaic laws, which had methods of. Believed in gods and goddesses controlled health and illness. disease control, prevention, public hygiene. Hippocrates, considered the father of medicine, rst to attribute disease to natural causes, and scienti c method. Hindu culture contained the sacred book the vedas . Crusades had military hospitals built for soldiers, men nurses, red hydrotherapy. cross armor. Roman catholic church became central gure of health care, based off of christian concepts. Major advancements in pharmacology, chemistry, medical knowledge, anatomy, surgery. Reformation: germany 1517, religious movement, hospital work is a non respected. Hospital of the immaculate conception in mexico city. Benjamin franklin insisted to build the rst hospital in the us.
