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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused by
Super natural spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Performed exorcise to treat patients -
3100 BCE
medicines used today
Digitalis is used for heart
Quinine is for fevers
Belladonna and Atropine is for stomach aces
Morphine is for pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Earliest people to create accurate health records
Priest acted like physicians
Treatment was enforced by allowing leaches to bloodlet -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
These acupuncture therapy treatments are still developing and being used for todays medical and therapeutic practices. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
They soon realized that these sicknesses were natural rather than spiritual and developed the use of message and herbal therapies. Hippocrates the father of medicines based his knowledge of anatomy of observation of the external body. -
100
Ancient Romans
To keep sanitation up the physicians keep a room specially for the sick or ill. Medical care was started by the Roman’s but this was sent to help wounded soldiers in the armies. Hospitals were used for caring to the sick and ill, physician’s were payed by the government to work in these hospitals. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopping the study of medicine
Why? Because they believed that the death of the human should be in gods hands not medical hands. -
700
How did the treat diseases
The primary treatment was prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle ages
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1100
Epidemics
chicken pox, Black Death, syphilis, tuberculosis and diphtheria -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirthing
Universities- research
Dissection- studying the human body
Books- printing the press allowing access to knowledge -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th century
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Study human body anatomy -
1550
Gabrielle Falloplus
Discovered fallopian tubes and female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the Eustachian tubes -
William Harvey
Studied physiology, described the circulation of blood -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
invented microscope -
Apothecaries
Engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the east -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Found that colds can be spread from person-person -
Medical Students Learning
Didn’t only attend the leaning classes but also would discover and look at dissected body’s and patients with diseases -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered element of oxygen, making usable for restoration -
Edward Jenner
Discovered the method of vaccination -
Rene Leanne
Invented stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th century
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever. After hunger of mothers died after childbirth -
Florence Nightingale
Worked for the military medical program and prevented soldiers from dyeing -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered tiny microorganisms were everywhere -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Diseases caused by microorganisms can’t be seen under a microscope -
Joseph Lister
He was the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery -
Ernst von Bergman
Discovered that Germs caused infections in wounds -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease causing organisms -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing organisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered and used the first ever x-rays -
Anesthesia
They would choke or distract the patients since they didn’t have anesthesia at the time, then there were able to eventually find it and start using it on patients -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life threading bacteria’s -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the brain -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds. -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to it -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus and figured out that it was more effective. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Preformed a successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Separates Siamese twins -
HIV
Improved medications for AIDS/HIV and therefore lessened the death rates -
Gene Therapy
Used by NHS and holds promises for treatment of blindness and other diseases such as heart disease. -
Cancer treatment
In the 20th century Chemotherapy and radiotherapy have developed a method for curing cancers. -
3D printing
Eyes, ears, mouths, jaws, legs, hands and feet are all things that are being 3d printed at this very moment for patients that have deformed body parts -
VR
VR is not only a children toys but is now being used for distracting kids and adults going through medical procedures -
Bluetooth tec
Not only does this help find our steps and count our heartbeat but healthcare professionals also use this to track patients day to day movement without being in the hospital. -
Period: to
21st century