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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
Treatment for sick?
Tribal ceremony to get ride of evil spirits -
3100 BCE
Medicines Still Use Today
Digitalis- treat heart conditions
Quinine- controls fever and prevents malaria
Belladonna and Atropine- relieve muscle spasms
Morphine- treating severe pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Kept accurate health records
Priests were physicians
They used medicines to heal diseases -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
The Chinese developed acupuncture therapies -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Discovered illnesses have natural causes
Hippocrates=father of medicine
Were not allowed to dissect bodies due to religion -
100 BCE
Ancient Romans
physicians kept a room for the ill- starting hospital
Started organized medical care
Developed a sanitation system with clean water and bathrooms -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Ages
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500
Stop the study of medicine, why?
Romans were concurred by the Huns -
700
How do they treat disease
Practiced only convents and monasteries -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Ages
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1100
Epidemics
Smallpox's, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
Built universities and medical schools, acceptance of dissection, develop print press to make research 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
Gabrielle Fallopius
Discovered Fallopian tubes for female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo Esutachio
Discovered tube going from ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Described the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
Antoine von Leeuwenhioek
Invented the microscope proving there is smaller life -
Apothecaries
Early on pharmacies -
Period: to
18th and 19th centuries
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Benjamin Franklin
Created bifocals and that cold could be passed from person to person -
Medical students learning
Attended lectures, labs and observed patients at the bedside, did dissection, -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element of oxogen
Observed that plants refresh oxogen -
Edward Jenner
Vaccination for smallpox -
Rene laennec
Invented the stethoscope
Initially made of wood -
Period: to
19th and 20th century
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever
And influenced hand washing -
Florence Nightingale
Founded modern day nursing -
Luis Pasteur
Father of microbiology -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Some diseases cannot be seen in a microscope -
Joseph Lister
First doctor to use an antiseptic during a surgery -
Ernest von Bergmann
Developed asepsis: a way to keep an area germ free before and during surgery -
Robert Koch
Introduced the importance of sanitation and cleanliness -
Paul Ehrilch
Discovered the effect medicine has on microorganisms- it was successful but did not kill bacteria -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered the x-ray -
Anesthesia
Discovered chloroform to put the patients into a deep sleep to not cause pain in surgery -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Lund penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide combines that were the first medicine to be effective in killing bacteria -
Jonas Salk
Discovered a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus, which is more effective in immunization -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered muscular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, and surgery on brains to stop surgeries -
Circadian clock
Discovery of a cluster of nerves behind the eye that controls your bodies daily rhythm -
Period: to
21st century
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Paul Ridker
Found that C relative protein can can predict the chances of heart disease -
Preeclampsia
Researchers pinpoint the source of preeclampsia - a life threatening complication in pregnancy -
Chemo
Chemotherapy helps fight fast dividing cell and cells that’s on the verge of self destruction -
ADAM10
Neurobiologist decipher the scissor enzyme that has a role in cell to cell communication but when it malfunctions it can cause cancer, alztimers, and Asthma.