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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
She studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. -
1550
Gabriele fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy. -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat. -
William Harvey
Used his knowledge to understand physiology, and able to describe circulation of blood. -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope and establishing life small than the eye can see. -
Apothecaries
Engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the east. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin franklin
Discovered : bifocals and found colds that could be passed on to another person. -
Medical students learning
Many students learned medicine and and were getting tought with lectures in labs. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element of oxygen and observed plants that lost oxygen and made usable for respiration. -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a method called smallpox, and discovered led to immunization and to preventive medicine in public health. -
Rene laennec
Invented the stethoscope and helped doctors hear hearts and lungs. -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Florence nightingale
Attracted many well education women into the nightgale school of nursing. -
Ignaz semmelweis
Identified the cause of child bed fever (puerperal fever). -
Louis Pasteur
Known as “the father of microbiology” and discovered that tiny microorganisms that were everywhere. -
Dimitri ivanovski
Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen under a microscope. They are called viruses. -
Joesph lister
Learned about Pasteurs discovery that micro organisms cause infection. Also used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs. -
Ernst von Bergmann
Developed asepsis, he devolved a method to keep an area germ free before and during surgery place. -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease causing organisms. He also invented the importance of cleanliness and sanitation in preventing the spread of disease. -
Paul ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. His treatment was effect for microorganisms but so much on other bacteria’s. -
Wilhelm roentgen
Discovered x-rays in 1895. He discovered and allowed him to see people bones through an x-ray -
Anesthesia
Before nineteenth century, doctors performed surgery without anesthesia. But today doctors can perform surgery without having pain with patients and having a safe surgery. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
He found that penicillin killed life threat ending bacteria. Before penicillin people were dying from other bacteria’s. -
Sigmund freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. His studies were the basics of psychology and psychiatry. -
Gerhard domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds. They changed the practice of medicine by killing deadly disease's. -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. This virus parlazed thousands of adults and children every year. -
Albert Sabin
Used a Live Polio virus vaccine, which is more effective. This vaccine is used today to immunize babies against this dreaded disease. -
Francis crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA, based on its known double helix. There model served to explain how DNA replicates. -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successfully heart transplant in 1968. -
Ben Carson
Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies. Surgery’s on the brain to stop seizures. -
Period: to
21st century
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Chemotherapy
Chemo helps by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer cells, which grow and divide quickly. And chemotherapy can be used to cure cancer -
Epi pen
This is to help treat very serious allergic reactions to insect stings or bites, foods, drugs or other substances. -
Microscopic surgery
Repair or reconnect microscopic parts of your lymphatic system, nerves or blood vessels -
The vaccine
Vaccine helps our bodies devolved immunity to the virus that causes covid 19 without us having to get the illness. -
Alzheimer drug ( leqembi )
Its to removes the amyloid plaques from the brain and that this, in turn ,slows the progression of the diease