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Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Ancient Egypt and health records
The Egyptians were the first to keep written and accurate health records. Still used magic and beliefs over medicine. This also showed us the first beginnings in which we built off as a world in medicine and health. -
Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
While they did not attribute lots they did record a pharmacopoeia which is an official drug directory of medications based on use of herbs. This gave us ideas of the first roots in medicine and how to make said drugs. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
The ancient Greeks began modern medical science by observing the human body on a deeper level. A biochemist named Alcmaeon indentified brains as the physiological site of senses. Hippocrates also was around in this time being names the father of medicine. He created an oath and records. -
Period: 753 BCE to 410
Ancient Romans
The Romans were the first to organize medical care by providing care for soldiers. Also began public health and sanitation systems by creating aqueducts to carry clean water and built sewers. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age discoveries
-based diagnosis on observations and symptoms
-Developed criteria for distinguishing between smallpox and measles.
These discoveries helped us in distinguishing diseases and figuring out how symptoms related. -
Period: 1510 to
Ambroise Paré
Considered the father of modern surgery after establishing the use of ligatures to bind, improved treatment of fractures, and promoted use of artificial limbs. This was highly good for the development in our surgical paths now. With the first look at fake limbs and the rebinding of bones and ligaments. -
Period: 1511 to 1553
Michael Servetus
Described the circulatory system in the lungs and explained how digestion is a source of heat for the body. Breakthrough in the circulatory system that we now see on diagrams of the body. -
Period: 1514 to 1562
First books
First anatomy book wrote by Andreas Versalius
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First book on dietetics published by Issac Judaeus
The first books of anything help educate the youth and other doctors. -
Period: 1523 to 1562
Gabriel Fallopius
Identified the fallopian tubes in the female reproductive system and described the tympanic membrane in the ear.
While random discoveries of the body, they do have their significance for other doctors and youth.Knowing how parts of the female reproductive system are fully good to learn and find ways to protect those areas from infection. -
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John Hunter
Established scientific surgical procedures and introduced tube feeding. Introducing better surgical procedure was key to saving more lives when conducting inner body procedures. -
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Edward Jenner
Developed a vaccination for smallpox. This was majorly important in stopping the smallpox disease. -
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Anasthesia
Before this was available surgery was a last resort. There were countless experiments of this before but non exactly as this. Anesthesia is highly effective in that it puts a patient in a sleep-like state in which they do not endure the pain of surgery. Which is why it is highly important -
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Germ Theory
The germ theory was proved by a man named Louis Pasteur. Originally everyone thought tha poisonous gas caused infection and or evil spirits. Until this man proved what many other tried to prove was germs. Tiny microscopic living organisms causing infection. Hence why itis so important that we know this today. -
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Joseph Lister
To me this is huge. Before Lister came to the scene it was rare that physicians washed their hands. That was until Lister came on and introduced carbolic acid. Which saved many during surgical procedures from internal pathogens. -
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Immunotherapy
This treatment stimulates the immune system to fight off a disease.This really began in 1890's with the experimental work of William B. Coley. This has since been mainly used to help with cancer. The significant improvements have saved many. -
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Medical imaging and x-rays
The first medical imaging machines were x-rays. It was "accidentally" invented by a German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen. This discovery transformed medicine seemingly overnight. Now able to look at bones and inner body workings without opening someone up. There were constantly more imaging machines being founded up until about 1973 -
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Insulin
The first use of insulin was in 1922 discovered by scientists at the university of Toronto. The advances over the years has kept people from dying quickly after their diagnosis. Most even able to live a normal life now. We still put research into it today. -
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DNA
Not much was known about DNA until James Watson discovered the double helix. Multiple other doctors and scientists were credited with the help in making further discovery in DNA such as Maurice Wilkins and Dr. Crick. Thanks to them we now know more about inheritance and rose the education in modern molecular biology. -
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Antibiotics
The world's first antibiotic was founded by Alexander Fleming named penicillin. This revolutionized the war against bacteria. The amount of antibiotics being made has saved countless lives across the world. -
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Organ transplants
In December of 1954 the first successful kidney transplant happened in the U.S. The turning point came when multiple technical difficulties had been solved making it much safer. Since then this discovery has saved tons of lives.