Our Unique Doctor Ornaments
are 6½ inches long. The People and Profession Tree Ornaments are a doctor wearing black rimmed glasses and a white lab coat over light blue doctor scrubs and brown shoes with a stethoscope around his neck. These Doctor Unique Christmas Ornaments are holding a clip board with his patient’s medical record. The unique doctor ornaments hang from a gold cord. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

History of Medicine.
Modern medical practice would seem like a miracle to a man who lived only one hundred years ago. Yet the spectacular development of modern medicine is based on many thousands of years of slow development. The great civilizations of the past have made important contributions to medical practice. Even the cave men contributed much of value.
Egypt, India and China developed methods of diagnosis and treatment. The Arabs made important medical observations. Greek medicine made outstanding contributions. The great Greek physician Hippocrates was a keen observer. He described certain diseases so well that his descriptions of them are still valid today. Hippocrates also is supposed to have written the famous Oath of Hippocrates, which is still taken by doctors today. This oath tells the way in which the physician must behave in regard to the well being of his patient.
After Greek civilization declined, the city of Alexandria in Egypt became the next great medical center. A great school of medicine flourished in Alexandria for several hundred years. This school was particularly famous for its experiments in anatomy. It is said that men who had been condemned to death were dissected alive in order to learn more facts about the human body.
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Roman medicine made great contributions in the field of sanitary engineering. The Romans drained the swamps and built aqueducts to bring fresh water to their cities. They also constructed sewers to carry off wastes. The Romans began the legal control of the practice of medicine.
There were two famous Roman doctors. One was named Celsus, the other Galen. Galen began as a physician who attended the gladiators. He made valuable contributions to the knowledge of the structure of the human body and the way it works. Unfortunately he believed that the pus, which forms in wounds, was a good thing. This idea, though incorrect, was widely held until the time of Pasteur in the middle of the 1800’s. Galen wrote many books on medicine. He developed the theory that Hipporcates had put forward, that four liquid humours were responsible for the health of the body. They were the blood, the phlegm, the black bile and the yellow bile. Galen believed that when these humours were properly mixed together in the body, the patient was healthy. When one or more of these humours was too plentiful, the patient became unhealthy. Galen discussed many ways in which these four humours could be combined. His writings and his methods were accepted for hundreds of years.
In the middle ages medicine was largely carried on in the great monasteries. The monks had many manuscripts, which told of the methods of Greek and Roman medicine. They also grew herbs for medicinal uses. The great school of medicine founded at Salerno in Sicily reached its peak in the 1100’s. All the great discoveries of Greek, Alexandrian, Jewish and Arab medicine were taught at Salerno. The great woman doctor Trotula was supposed to have practiced here.
At this time great universities began to develop their own medical schools. The medical schools at Montpellier in France and Oxford in England were particularly famous. Select this link to view our Unique Christmas Ornaments.

Medical Professionals.
In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other developed countries, medicine has become more complicated as it has progressed. In most cases, a doctor makes the major decisions regarding care of patients. Traditionally, all doctors received general medical training and treated all types of patients. Sick people received most care in their homes from one doctor who treated the whole family. Then, during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, hospitals began to provide a better environment than homes for seriously ill patients. Family doctors began to admit patients to hospitals to take advantage of such features as skilled nursing care and operating rooms. Family doctors continued to oversee ca