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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for the sick?
Tribal ceremonies -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digital as for heart
Quinine for Fevers
Belladonna and atropine for GI pain
Morphine for pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Accurate health records
Priests as physicians
Used splinting fractures and bloodletting with leaches for healing -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Developed acupuncture in Stone Age -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Diseases - Learned caused naturally
Dissection -Not allowed
Hippocrates -Father of medicine -
100
Ancient Romans
Filter/ sewage systems
Medical treatment to soldiers
Ill room in homes -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped Study of medicine
Lives in Gods hands -
700
How to treat disease?
Prayer and herbal mixtures -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Caused millions of deaths -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
Medical schools
Studied inner body
Greater access to learning -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied anatomy of body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Tube from ear to throat -
William Harvey
Circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
Antonio von Leeuwenhoek
Microscope
Tooth decay -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacies -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Bifocals and the spreading of colds -
Medical students learning
Lectures
Laboratory
Dissection of passed patients -
Joseph Priestley
Oxygen element
Respiration -
Edward Jenner
Smallpox vaccination -
Rene Laennec
Stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Cause of childbed fever
Wash hands -
Florence Nightingale
Found modern nursing -
Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology
Microorganisms cause disease
Heat milk = no bacteria
Rabies vaccine -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Viruses -
Joseph lister
Antiseptic during surgery (slows/ stops microorganism growth) -
Ernst con Bergmann
Asepsis (sterile area) -
Robert Koch
Discovered disease causing organisms -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered effect medicine has on disease causing microorganisms -
Wilhelmina Roentgen
Discovered x-rays -
Anesthesia
Feeling/ sensation loss -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Penicillin kills life treating bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered unconscious and conscious parts of brain -
Gerhard Domagk
Sulfonamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Dead polio virus cause immunity to poliomyelitis (central nervous system) -
Albert Sabin
Used polio virus vaccine -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Performed first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Separates Siamese twins
Brain surgery preventing seizures -
Period: to
21st Century
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Robotic Hysterectomy
Uterus Heal faster
Smaller incisions -
Anthony Atala
Started 3D printing in healthcare -
Hepatitis C
Cure found -
Xenotransplantation
Organ transplant from animal species to another
Man received pig heart -
Teplizumab- mzwv
Delays type 1 diabetes