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3900 BCE
Disease Caused by?
super natural spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick?
Ceremonies -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis is used for heart medication
Quinine helps fever along with Belladonna and atropine helps muscle spasms
Morphine helps with pain -
Period: 3000 BCE to 4000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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Period: 2999 BCE to
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Earliest people to have health records
Priests we're physicians
They used medicine to heal -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Used stone tools to treat illness -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
First to say illness was natural not spiritual
Did not allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics -
100
Ancient Romans
Discovered sewers and made baths with filtration
Sent medical help to soldiers and helped the sick
Physicians were paid by the government -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
stopped the study of medicine, why?
Conquered by Huns -
700
How do they treat disease?
Prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Bubonic plague, small pox, diphtheria -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
They built universities and medical schools for research
Finally accepted dissection
Printing press, publishing of medical books -
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 fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered Eustachian tube -
William Harvey
First to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
Invented microscope and that life is smaller than the eye can see -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacies -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered colds could be passed person to person -
Medical students learning
Watched people die and then later dissected them -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered oxygen and that plants refresh air -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccine for small pox -
Rene Laennec
Discovered the first stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Found the cause of childbed fever and helped cleanliness become a normal practice -
Florence Nightingale
Helped nursing become a normal profession -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere and can cause disease -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Discovered that microorganisms could cause diseases that can't be seen with a microscope -
Joseph Lister
First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery -
Ernst von Bergmann
Made a way to keep the area clean and germ free before surgery -
Robert Koch
Discovered a lot disease causing organisms -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered effects of medicine on disease cussing organisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered X-rays -
Anesthesia
Made to put people In a deep sleep during surgery so they don't feel pain -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found out penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Found conscious and non conscious parts of the brain -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Found that dead polio virus could cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus vaccine and it was better -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
A pioneer in separating Siamese twins and doing surgeries on the brain to stop seizures -
Targeted cancer therapies
Cancer treatment that only targets cancerous cells and saving healthy ones -
Period: to
21st Century
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Human Genome
Helped pave the way to personalized medicine -
Advances in immunotherapy
Checkpoint inhibitors and CAR-T cell therapy has helped with different types of cancer by helping the body fight the disease -
Gene editing
The developed of CRISPR-Cas9 to help cure future genetic disorders -
mRNA vaccines development
The development of COVID-19 vaccines along with others was a break through in vaccine technology