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Period: 4000 BCE to
Early beginning
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused by
evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Tribal ceremonies to get rid of evil spirits -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
-digitalis came from the foxglove plant, today it is now a pill, it is injected to treat heart conditions
-quinine comes from the bark of the cinchona
-belladonna and atropine are from the poisonous nightshade plant.
-morphine is made from the opium poppy. -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
They were the first people to keep an accurate health record and called the gods to heal them.Priest were the physicians and healed diseases. They used medicine to heal. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Chinese would cure illness and disease with stone tools. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Medicine was considered an art not a profession.
Their religion were not allowed to dissect.
Spiritual belief was eliminated by research -
100
Ancient Roman’s
There was some disease found because of the lack of sanitation.Roman’s were the first to organize medical care.they kept a room for their ill and it was the begging of hospitals.. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine why?
They stopped medicine because they thought healing and death was in gods hands -
700
How do they treat diseases?
they treated the ill with a prayer. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Different types of viral diseases -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
-have universities and medical schools for research.
-acceptance of the body for study
- publishing allowing a greater knowledge from research -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Recorded the anatomy of the body an depiction of the human body figure. -
1550
Gabrielle Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy. -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the tear to the throat called the Eustachian tube. -
William Harvey
He was able to describe circulation of the blood and pumping of the heart. -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
Discovered the microscope, establishing that there is life smaller the the eye can see. -
Apothecaries
rarely pharmacies in medieval England -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
He found that colds could be passed form person to person. -
Medical students learning
Students attended lectures in the classroom and laboratory and had also observed patients at the bed side. -
Joseph priestly
Discovered the element oxygen and observed plants refresh air that lost it oxygen making it usable for respiration. -
Edward Jenner
discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Leannec
Invented the first stethoscope made out of wood. -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ibanez Semmelweis
Identified the cause of child bed fever -
Florence nightingale
She was the founder of modern nursing. -
Louis Pasteur
known as the father of microbiology and discovered tiny microorganisms -
Dimitri ivanovski
known for discovering viruses. -
Joseph lister
discovered that microorganisms cause diseases. -
Ernst von Bergmann
he developed asepsis. -
Robert Koch
Discovered many diseases causing organisms. -
Paul ehrlich
discovered the effect of medicine of diseases causing microorganisms, -
Wilhelm roentgen
discovered x-rays. -
Anesthesia
before anesthesia was not performed on patients during surgery. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillins killed life threatening bacteria. -
Sigmund Freud
discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. -
Gerard domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds. -
Jonas Salk
discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. -
Albert Sabin
best known for oral polio vaccine. -
Francis crick and James Watson
discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
performed the first successful heart transplant. -
Ben Carson
performs separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, and surgeries on the brain to stop seizures. -
Period: to
21st century
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5 advancements in medicines today
- new drugs for type 2 diabetes -functional MRI -artificial organs -targeted therapy in cancer treatment -cyber knife