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4000 BCE
primitive times
when people first believed that sickness was caused by bad smells and spirits -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
earliest people known to maintain health records. They called on to gods to help the sick. They used magic and medical plants to heal the sick -
1723 BCE
17th century
Anton van Leeuwenhoek built a microscopic and there was also the first successful blood transfusion. -
1700 BCE
ancient chinesse
Began the search for a medical reason for illness. Life span was 20-30 years. Used acupuncture use needles to relieve and unclog the body. -
1492 BCE
16 centry
The cause of the diseases was still not known and many people still died -
460 BCE
hippocrates
Father of medicine and believed that sickness was cause by natural causes, he also pushed ideas of cleanliness -
400 BCE
400-800
Emphasis was placed on saving the soul, and the study was prohibited, prayer was fed into intervention for the sick and diseased. medications were mostly herbs -
129 BCE
claudias galen
found that the body is regulated by 4 different fluids. and found the body has imbalanced fluids -
910
Rhazes
arab physician and suggested blood caused and spread disease and he used animal guts as sutures. -
1347
Dark ages
when the pubionic plague whipped out half of Europe just as new medicines were being found -
1350
Renaissance
The rebirth of medicine and dissection of the body allowed it to be better understood. The circulatory system was finally understood -
18th Century
Joseph priestly discovered the element of oxygen. -
small pox vaccine
The smallpox vaccine was founded by the British doctor Edward Jenner by realizing that if people were exposed to cow pox they were immune to smallpox -
Smallpox vacinetion/edward jenner
The vaccine is made from a virus called vaccinia which is a "pox"-type virus related to smallpox. The smallpox vaccine contains the "live" vaccinia virus - not the deadly virus like many other vaccines. And it was oringanly made from cowpox after finding they make you immune (Edward jenner -
clara barton
Founder of the red cross provided care to soldiers during the civil war -
Louis pasture
he was a chemist who was the father of micro sciences -
20th
Yellow fever was found in water and misqutios and the hearing aids were founded -
smallpox
A deadly disease that whipped out 70% of the European nation