Medicine Consolidates Technological Advances.

Medicine consolidates technological advances.

Introduction

During these centuries medicine is consolidated and a lot of progress and progress are given due to technological advances. 

Developing: 

• The theory of cell pathology: formulated by Rudolf Virchow, it was a first conception of the concept of disease based on the idea of cells.
• The microbial theory of the disease: the disease presents us as a result of the action of certain microorganisms about the individual. As a consequence of this theory there was a great advance in the study and creation of antibiotics
• Immunology: it was discovered as the organism can become immune to certain pathologies, it was closely related to the discovery of vaccines.
• Endocrinology and the discovery of vitamins: the existence of a hormonal system and how vitamins influence the body’s ability to respond to certain diseases is discovered.
• Epidemiology: great advances occur in how to treat epidemics and the spread of diseases among the population.
• Genetics and molecular biology: it will be a spectacular advance in terms of identification isolation and cloning of certain genes and molecules that can be used to combat certain diseases.

Great protagonists of medicine

Although we have run with the injustice of being able to leave any of the most important protagonists of our discipline we are going to leave those who consider characters of an extreme relevance for our science.

Imhotep: is considered the founder of Egyptian medicine and discovers the value of opiates as anesthetics, performs the first anatomies and the first diagnoses of certain diseases with great detail. In Egypt and in his civilization he was considered a god.

Galen: His great importance lies in 2 aspects was the first that explained in physiological terms the functioning of the body and of course its maximum contribution was the preparation of drugs for the same.

Avicena: Refer that apart from the doctor was scientific and philosophical, with more than 300 written books was one of the top producers of their time and a great influence for the thought of the same.

William Harvey: His maximum influence for medicine is based on the fact that he correctly described the properties and the circulatory system of the blood.

Edward Jenner: We couldn’t forget the discoverer of the smallpox vaccine on this list.

Alexander Fleming: His appearance means a before and after in the medicine of the modern era, with him we enter the era of antibiotics, being the discoverer of penicillin.

Traditional medicine vs. Modern medicine

Now that we know that it is exactly medicine, we will try to answer one of the questions what the most ask. What is better traditional medicine or modern medicine? Is one than another better? Does it depend on the pathology or disease that I have will better come to me one than another?

To all, once, these types of issues have emerged and we will try to answer those in the most concise and clear way possible. We will begin by saying that both traditional and modern medicine could have a mutually beneficial relationship although they obviously present differences.

conclusion

We could define traditional medicine such as the cure of patients with remedies derived from the use of certain plants or animals how medication and the transfer of this information from generation to generation. Modern medicine instead would be the branch of science that is based on scientific knowledge that has gone from generation to generation but using the scientific method as a basis for utility and truthfulness.