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Medicine SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Ancient Greece
p.18

Medicine is used to treat and prevent sickness. Medicine ▸ ▸ Biology p.38
can be made from plants or from chemicals in a science lab. ▸ ▸ Chemistry p.58
Doctors are trained to discover different problems and find ▸ ▸ Human body

the right treatment or medicine to make people better. p.130
▸ ▸ Science p.217

▸ ▸ Sickness p.225

Chamomile was Medieval medicine Medicinal leech
used to treat fevers Too much blood was thought
in ancient Greece. to make people sick, so
leeches were used to
suck out small amounts.

Ancient medicine
Plants and herbs have
been used as medicine for
thousands of years. Ancient
Greek doctor Hippocrates was
the first person to teach about
medicine based on science.

This endoscope
was used to
Early modern medicine look inside ears.
Doctors used new
inventions to find
out what was wrong
with patients. Bad
smells were thought
to cause sickness, so
patients breathed in This sickly royal
nice smells like herbs. patient has been
covered in leeches
to try to cure him.
Doctors
A patient’s heart
could be heard with Doctors find out what is wrong
the newly invented with patients by looking at
stethoscope. An X-ray takes their bodies, asking questions,
a picture of the and testing things from the
bones inside body, such as the blood.
the body. They can then treat them.

Smallpox was
the first infectious
disease to be wiped Modern medicine
out by humans, in Doctors use machines like
X-rays to look inside the body.
We know tiny germs and
1980. viruses cause sickness. We
can kill germs with antibiotic
medicines, and we can stop
viruses with vaccine injections.
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