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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused?
Evil spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments of sick
Prayer,blood,letting,exorcisms,amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis- for heart
Quinine-
Belladonna and atropine
Morphine -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
were the earliest people to keep health records. Priests acted as physicians Blood letting use of leeches ,medicines -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Used stone tools to make acupunctures -
900 BCE
Anicent Greeks
Observed the illnesses to determine nature vs spiritual Hippocrates : the father of medicine Did not allow dissections -
100
Ancient Romans
Clean water : for sanitation systems First to organize medical care and sent medical equipment with army’s to cure wounded soldiers. Public building : hospital development -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine?
They had no interest on how the body functions -
700
How do they treat diseases?
Vaccines,and medications to treat diseases -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics : caused million of deaths (the Black Death) -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
rebirth
Saw the Rebirth of learning Universities : for medical schools to research. Dissection : acceptance of the body for study Books : the development of printing press and the publishing of books, allowing greater access to knowledge from research. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci