Editing History of Medicine (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Understanding</span> ==
The history of medicine is understood through '''Scientific Evidence''' and '''Sanitation'''.

'''1. Ancient and Medieval (The Balance of Fluids)''':
For 2,000 years, doctors followed Galen and Hippocrates.
* They believed you got sick because your "Humors" were out of balance.
* Their primary treatments were "Bloodletting" (cutting you to let out the "Bad Blood") and prayer.
* While mostly wrong, they did establish the importance of observation and medical ethics.

'''2. The Heroic Age (Surgery and Infection)''':
In the 1800s, medicine transformed.
* '''Lister''': Discovered that "Antiseptics" (cleaning tools) saved lives. Before him, doctors went from autopsies to delivering babies without washing their hands.
* '''Anesthesia''': Transformed surgery from a "Scream-filled race against time" into a careful procedure.

'''3. The Biological Revolution (Antibiotics and DNA)''':
* '''1928''': Fleming discovered Penicillin, ending the era where a simple scratch could be a death sentence.
* '''1950s''': The discovery of the DNA double helix allowed us to understand the "Code" of disease.

'''Placebo Effect''': The realization that the "Mind" can help the "Body" heal, which forced scientists to invent "Double-Blind" trials to prove if a medicine actually works.
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