Our Nurse Nutcrackers
are 10 inches tall and stand on a round, white base. The base has red hearts with red dots along the front. These Christmas Nutcrackers Village People are wearing a white nurse costume with a royal blue bow tie and a royal blue trim along the bottom of her dress. This Unique Wooden Nutcracker is also wearing a traditional nurses cap with a red cross in the front. Her pants are white and her shoes are white with royal blue soles and laces. The Christmas Nutcrackers Village People are holding a brown tray that has FIRST AID written on the front. On top of the tray are red, green, blue and yellow medicine bottles. The very pretty nurse nutcracker is complete with blonde hair and red lipstick. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

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 1800s and early 1900s, 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 care of their hospitalized patients single handedly. Check out our Christmas Ornament Sets for the holidays.

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. Select this link to view our Christmas Nutcrackers Village People.
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.