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Period: 800 BCE to
Mythology
Natural spirits are revengeful or dark, cause sickness.
Some cultures still believe in this idea. -
Period: 700 BCE to 100 BCE
Hippocratic Corpus
Thought sickness was due to the imbalance of natural forces or bodily fluids. 1st idea of environmental effects on health. -
1300
Start of Quarantine
Quarantine is the separation of possibly infected people in a population. -
Period: 1347 to
Bubonic Plague
The Bubonic Plague was caused by bacteria in fleas and rats. However, doctors during this era thought the sickness was due to Miasma, or bad air. -
1546
Girolamo Fracastoro
People thought that "disease seeds" in the air caused sickness
-early germ theory -
John Grant
Bills of Morality - analyzed death statistics and life expectancy to see if there were any trends in disease. -
Robert Hooke
Invented the first light microscope and coined the term "cells" -
Anton van Leeuwenhouk
"Father of Microscopy" - made the first useful microscope and was the fist to see bacteria. -
John Pringle
Studied Jail Fever and believed sickness was caused by filth. Coined the term "influenza" -
James Lind
First clinical trial on sailors with scurvy, proposed they eat citrus fruits to prevent the sickness. Results weren't accepted for 30 years.
