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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
Ancient human beings had no electricity, few tools and poor shelter. They would spend most of their time protecting themselves against predators and finding food. They were superstitious people and believed that illness and diseases were caused by supernatural spirits -
3900 BCE
Diseases caused by
Evil Spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Magic and herbal remedies -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
The Egyptians were the first people to keep accurate health records. They were superstitious people and would call upon the gods to heal them and learned how to identify certain diseases. They would use medicines to heal diseases, learned about splinting fractures and would treat disorders by using leeches for bloodletting -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
It covers all the continents inhabited by humans in this time period. There is a three-age system in this divided period of time, the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. It began with the Bronze Age -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
A civilization in ancient Northeast Africa, in the Egyptian Nile Valley. The civilization followed the prehistoric Egypt and came together with the political unification of upper and lower Egypt under Menes -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
It is the oldest provided stage of Chinese and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. Inscriptions of oracle bones were discovered in the late Shang dynasty -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Around 2,500 years ago Greece was a very important place in the ancient world. They were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians. They would call themselves Hellenes and their land was Hellas -
100
Ancient Romans
They were known for their military, political and social institutions. They took control of a very large amount of land in Europe and Northern Africa. They built roads, aqueducts and spread their Latin language everywhere -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
When the Roman Empire was conquered by the nomads from the north the study of medical science had stopped. For 1,000 years medicine was practiced only in the convents and monasteries because the church believed that life and death was in God’s hands -
500
Stopped the study of medicine
When Rome was taken over the study of medicine stopped 1,000 years only to practice in convents and monasteries -
700
How do they treat disease
They treated diseases with magic and herbal remedies. They believed in supernatural powers known as medicine man or witch doctor that would heal the sick. They believed that their gods would heal them -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
There were terrible diseases that affected many people at the same time that caused millions of deaths during the Middle Ages. Just alone the Black Death killed 60 million people. -
1100
Epidemics
It is a disease that rapidly spreads to a large number of people that are together in the same area in a short period of time -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
This period saw the rebirth of learning, during this new scientific programs began. There were many developments during this like the building of universities and medical schools for research, the development of the printing press and the publishing of books allowing greater access to knowledge from research. These changes influenced the future of medical science -
1450
Rebirth
They would leave one life to go into another, it’s all for their sole purpose, development and spiritual growth. Depending on the soul it may take form from a human, animal or plant depending on that moral of equality of the previous life’s actions -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
The 16th century began with the Julian year in 1501 and ended with either the Julian or Gregorian year in 1600, it’s regarded by historians as people saw this century as the western civilization. The 17th century began January 1 1601 and ended December 31 1700, it falls into the early modern period of Europe -
1515
Leonardo da Vinci
He was an active painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
He was an Italian catholic priest, one of the most important person in anatomy and physicians of the sixteenth century giving his name the Fallion tube -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
He was an Italian anatomist and one of the founders of the science of human anatomy -
William Harvey
He was an English physician who made an influence in anatomy and physiology -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
He was a Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology -
Apothecaries
It’s the person who manufactured and distributed medicines and which those medicines were sold -
Period: to
18th Century
It began on January 1 1701 and ended December 31 1800, elements of Enlightenment culminating in the American, French and Haitian revolutions -
Benjamin Franklin
He was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher -
Medical students learning
They only attended lectures in the class or go in the labitory -
Joseph Priestley
He was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator and liberal political -
Edward Jenner
He was a British physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine -
Rene Laennec
He was a French physician and musician. He invented the stethoscope in 1816 -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
The 19th century began on January 1st 1801 and ended on December 31 1900, it was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. Slavery was abolished mostly in Europe and the Americans. The 20th century began on January 1st 1901 and ended December 31 2000, it was dominated by events that defined the modern era -
Ignaz Semmmelweis
He was a Hungarian physician and scientist who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures -
Florence Nightingale
She was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. In the Crimean War she organized care for wounded soldiers -
Louis Pasteur
He was a French chemist and microbiologist. He is known for his discoveries on the principles of vaccinations -
Dmitri Ivanovski
He was a Russian botanist, a co-discover of viruses and one of the founders of virology -
Joseph Lister
He was a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine -
Ernst von Bergmann
He was a Baltic German surgeon and was the first physician to introduce heat sterilization of surgical instruments -
Robert Koch
He was a German physician and microbiologist. He was the discover of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases -
Paul Ehrlich
He was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy -
Wilhelm Roentgen
He was a German mechanical engineer and physicist who on November 8 1895 produced the electromagnetic radiation known as the X-ray -
Anesthesia
It is a medical treatment that helps patients to not feel pain during procedures or surgeries, Its a medication that puts you to sleep before your procedure, it goes into the patient by the injection of the administration of gases -
Sir Alexander Fleming
He was a Scottish physician and microbiologist known for discovering the worlds first broadly effective antibiotic substance -
Sigmund Freud
He was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis -
Gerhard Domagk
He was a German pathologist and bacteriologist -
Jonas Salk
He was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines -
Albert Sabin
He was a Polish-American medical researcher known for developing the oral polio vaccine -
Francis Crick and James Watson
They were the co-discovers of the double-helix structure of DNA that formed the basis of modern biotechnology -
Christian Barnard
He was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the worlds first human-to-human heart transplant -
Ben Carson
He is an American retired neurosurgeon and politician who served as the 17th United States secretary of housing from 2017 to 2021 -
Period: to
21st Century
It is the current century in the Anna Domini era that is under the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1 2001 and ends December 31 2100