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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease’s Caused by?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, bloodletting, amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis for heart
Quinine for digestion
Morphine for pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health Records- the earliest people to keep health records.
Who are physicians? The Priest
How did they heal? Bloodletting, medicines, and leaches. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture- used stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness cause Nature vs. spiritual- observe the illnesses to determine nature vs spiritual.
Dissection- did not allow dissection
Hippocrates- the father of medicine -
100
Ancient Romans
Sanitation Systems- clean water
Organize medical care- the first to organize, sent medical equipment with army’s to cure wounded soldiers.
Hospital Development- public buildings -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine, why?
They had no interest in how the body functioned. -
700
How do they treat disease?
Vaccines and medications -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Caused millions to death -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
Universities- for research
Dissection- body of study
Books- greater access to knowledge -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. -
1550
Gabrielle Fallopius
Discovered fallopian tubes of female anatomy. -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube form ear to throat. -
William Harvey
Used his knowledge to understand physiology. -
Antonio von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacy’s -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals and that colds are contagious. -
Medical students learning
Students observed patients at bedside, if patient died the student would examine the body and discover disseases. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element oxygen.