{"id":4133,"date":"2020-12-11T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/7-native-american-inventions-that-revolutionized-medicine-and-public-health\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:22:03","slug":"7-native-american-inventions-that-revolutionized-medicine-and-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/business-markets\/7-native-american-inventions-that-revolutionized-medicine-and-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Native American Inventions That Revolutionized Medicine And Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natives treating the sick, United States of America, engraving by Vernier from Etats-Unis &#8230; [+] d&#8217;Amerique, by Roux de Rochelle, L&#8217;Univers Pittoresque, published by Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1837. DeA \/ Biblioteca Ambrosiana November is\u00a0National American Indian Heritage Month, a time of\u00a0recognition for the substantial contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S. But, the month and remembrance, like many Native influences, still frequently go unrecognized in our day-to-day lives. Whether it\u2019s the invention of vital infrastructure such as\u00a0cable suspension bridges\u00a0or sport for fun like\u00a0lacrosse, so much of what exists in modern culture today is a direct result of what was created before newcomers occupied these lands. And the world\u2019s health ecosystem, ranging from preventative measures to administration of medicine is no different, owing much of its practices and innovations to those ancestral peoples and healers. Here are seven inventions used every day in medicine and public health that we owe to Native Americans. And in most cases, couldn\u2019t live without today: 1. Syringes In 1853 a Scottish doctor named Alexander Wood was credited for the creation of the first hypodermic syringe, but a\u00a0much earlier tool\u00a0existed. Before colonization, Indigenous peoples had created a method using a sharpened hollowed-out bird bone connected to an animal bladder that could hold and inject fluids into the bod&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Forbes<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nicolefisher\/2020\/11\/29\/7-native-american-inventions-that-revolutionized-medicine-and-public-health\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natives treating the sick, United States of America, engraving by Vernier from Etats-Unis &#8230; [+] d&#8217;Amerique, by Roux de Rochelle, L&#8217;Univers Pittoresque, published by Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1837. DeA \/ Biblioteca Ambrosiana November is\u00a0National American Indian Heritage Month, a time of\u00a0recognition for the substantial contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1106,"featured_media":4134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>7 Native American Inventions That Revolutionized Medicine And Public Health - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/7-native-american-inventions-that-revolutionized-medicine-and-public-health\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"7 Native American Inventions That Revolutionized Medicine And Public Health - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Natives treating the sick, United States of America, engraving by Vernier from Etats-Unis ... 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