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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by
Caused by super natural spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Preformed an exorcism/asked gods to heal them and they also used plants and herbs as medicine's -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Chewing leaves of a foxglove plant which slows the heart beat ,quinine which controles fever and relives muscle spasms, belladona and atropine which relieve muscle spasms and morphine which treats severe pain. -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Earliest to keep accurate health records, priests were physicians, they used medicines to heal diseases they also used bloodletting -
1900 BCE
Ancient chinese
First to use primitive acupuncture therapies -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
-Medicine was considered an art not a profession
-first to think that illness might have natural causes not spiritual ones
-they researches and studied the body and understood the importance of it
-hypocrates wrote the standard of ethics -
100
Ancient Romans
- They were the begging of hospitals
- 1st to start organizing things
- they sorted out the ill and put them in separate rooms
- they wore a death mash which they think protected them
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Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
What stopped the study of medicine
They thought that illness has nothing to do with natural cause and they all thought it was in the hands of god so they stopped studying medicine -
700
How do they treat disease
-praying was the primary resolution -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Plague, smallpox,diphtheria,syphilis, and tuberculosis caused millions of deaths -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
-New developments
-rebirth of learning
-building of university’s and medical schools
-search for new ideas about diseases
- development of books and printing press -
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 of the email body -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube going into the ear and the throat -
William Harvey
Describes the circulation of blood pumping into and out of the hear -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Traded drugs and spices -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
-Found that colds can be passed to person to person
-discovered bifocals -
Medical students learning
New ways of teaching medicine
Students would attend class to learn
This lead to the understanding of death -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified te cause of childbed fever -
Florence Nightingale
She took in 38 women to care for soldiers, she also volunteered at hospitals -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered that microorganisms were everywhere. He also discovered that pasteurization kills bacteria in milk. He also created the vaccination for rabies. -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Discovered that some diseases were caused by microorganisms/ viruses -
Joseph Lister
He used carbonic acid to kill germs that caused infection in wounds. First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery -
Ernst von Bergmann
Developed asepsis. -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease- causing organisms. Introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation to prevent spread of disease -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing organisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-rays -
Anesthesia
They put people into deep sleep during surgery so they don’t have pain. We use this today -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind and studied the the effects it had on the body -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds. -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus vaccine -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Separated Siamese twins and performed hemispherectomics to stop seizures -
Period: to
21st century
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5 advancements in medicine
-Gene Therapy for Hemoglobinopathies
-the ability to transplant organs from a donar to a recipient
-the ability to reattach served body parts
-Anti-Smoking laws and Campaigns Reduce Public Smoking
-the advancement in caring for the unborn fetus