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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused by
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sickness
Exorcise
Blood letting
Prayer and divine intervention -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis: heart medication
Quinine: controls fever and muscle spasms.
Belladonna and atropine: relief muscle spasms
Morphine: pain medication -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
They were the first to keep health records
Priests acted as physicians
Used medicines to heal -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
First to use acupuncture therapies
Commonly used today -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
First to discover illness might be caused by a lack of sanitation. -
100 BCE
Ancient romans
First to organize health care
Had rooms in there house for the sick -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Why did they stop studying new medicine?
Believed life and death was in gods hands. -
700
How did they treat disease
They prayed that the disease would go away -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Bubonic plague: killed 60 million people
Smallpox
Syphilis
Tuberculosis -
Period: 1350 to
The Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth of learning
Buildings for medical research were made
acceptance of the dissection of the body for study
Started publishing books -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered the Fallopian tubes In the female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Able to describe the blood circulation and the pumping of the heart -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope
Life smaller then the blind eye can see -
Christian Barnard
Did the first successful heart transplant -
Apothecaries
Engaged in drugs and spices trade from the east -
Period: to
The 18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered colds can be passed from person to person directly
Discovered bifocals -
Medical students learning
They attended lectures
Observed patients bed side
Led to better understanding of how sickness is spread and how to cure it -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element of oxygen
Discovered how oxygen can be reused -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccine for smallpox
Discovery saved millions of lives -
Rene Laennec
Discovered the stethoscope
It increases the ability to hear the heart beat -
Period: to
The 19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever
Made hadn’t washing a accepted practice in medicine -
Florence Nightingale
Raised standards for nursing
Took a group of 38 woman to care for soldiers in war
Designed a hospital ward that improved health care of the patients -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered microorganisms were everywhere
Pasteurization kills bacteria in milk
Made a vaccine for rabies -
Joseph Lister
Discovered microorganisms cause infection -
Ernst von Bergmann
Devolved asepsis
Had a method to keep germs out of surgery’s -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease causing organisms
Devolved a method to find bacteria that causes tuberculosis -
Paul Ehrlich
discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
On his 606 attempt, he found a treatment that worked -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered the x-ray -
Anesthesia
Made patience’s unconscious during surgery
Made surgery way less painful -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria
One of the most important discoverers in the 20th century -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
Let to the understanding of psychosomatic -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfanilamide compounds.
First affective in killing bacteria -
Jonas Salk
Discovered a way to cure poliomyelitis
Saved many from death or crippling -
Albert Sabin
Used a polio virus vaccine
Used to immunize babies against the dreaded disease -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA
Figured out its a double helix -
Ben Carson
Continuing Separating Siamese twin and performing hemispherectomies -
Period: to
21st Centu
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21st century
Nurses are visiting patients at home
Doctors are often doing telemedicine
Using electronic communications to send important information
Teaching patients about self care
Go to specific doctors for different needs