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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused by
Evil spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Exorcises -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Herbs, plants,Digitalis, quinine,belladonna, atropine,morphine -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Accurate health records,they were superstitious, used leeches to heal. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Treat Illness and diseases with stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Research help eliminate superstition and development massage and herbal therapists -
100
Ancient Romans
Disease was caused by lack of sanitation, Romans first to organize medical care, -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine, why?
Practiced only in convents and monasteries. -
700
How do they treat dieseases?
Prayer and herbal mixtures -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Killed many people. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
Rebirth of learning, university and medical schools were created, dissection of the body for stud, and books were created for study. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes in the female body. -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustacheio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat. -
Willam Harvey
Used knowledge to understand physicology -
Antoine Von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Flourishing trade in drugs and spices -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
Bifocals, found out colds could spread from one person to another. -
Medical students learning
Students attended lectures in the classroom, laboratory and also observed patients at the bedside. Dissect and observe -
Joseph Priestly
Discovered the element oxygen. -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a method of vaccination for small pox. -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope. -
Period: to
19th and 20th Century
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Ignacio Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever -
Florence Nightingale
founder of modern nursing. -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere. -
Dimitri Ivanovski
discoverer of viruses, and one of the founders of virology. -
Joseph Lister
Discovery that microorganisms cause infections. -
Ernst von Bergmann
Developed asepis -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease causing organisms. -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on diseases causing microorganisms. -
Wilhelmina Roentgen
Discovered X-rays in 1895. -
Anesthesia
Surgery was performed without anesthesia and they would use herbs, hashish and alcohol to relive some of the pain. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria. -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compound. -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus vaccine, which was way more effective. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of dna. -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant in 1968 -
Ben Carson
Continues to perform surgeries on the brain to stop seizures.