These Best Doctor Nutcracker Style Ornaments
are 5 inches tall. The Doctor has a white Lab Coat, Old Fashioned Doctors Light and a Tongue depressor. It will hang from a gold cord or stand alone on a shelf. These Nutcracker Ornaments are wearing a white Lab coat with black trim and silver buttons, white shirt with red glitter tie, light blue trousers with white shoes. He stands on a small round wooden base painted white with red glitter stripes around the side. This Unique Christmas Ornaments clip board in under his arm, his stethoscope is around his neck and his Old Fashioned Doctors Light is attached to a gold cord around his forehead. Standing upright beside him is a 4 ˝ inch tall Tongue Depressor with “BEST DOCTOR” printed on it. He stands on a small white wooden base painted white with red glitter stripes around the side. 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.
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