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The history of medicine in Europe
The Chinese, Indian, Persian and Egyptian cultures developed early ideas of medicine, many years before similar ideas appeared in Europe. In 400 BC, Hippocrates wrote the first European 1_____________ about medicine. At this time, the focus was on diet and hygiene and there was very little knowledge of surgery and 2_____________.
This approach to health care 3_____________ for over a thousand years until the work of people like Andreas van Wesel and William Harvey in the 1500s and 1600s. They examined bodies and started to 4_____________ experiments. This led to a better understanding of how the body works but it did not lead to many 5_____________ medicines or treatments. The 6_____________ change in European medicine came in the 1800s when chemistry and other sciences developed. 7_____________ such as Lister and Pasteur learnt how germs spread disease and how to make medicines. It was also the time when the 8_____________ work on genetics began with Mendel’s experiments with peas. A hundred years later, Watson and Crick discovered DNA and Barnard 9_____________ the first heart transplant.