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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by
Supernatural Spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Exorcisms -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
-Digitalis treats heart conditions
-Quinine controls fevers
-Belladonna and atropine relive muscle spasms
-Morphine treats pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Were the earliest people to keep health records and their priests were the physicians. They would use medicine and splinting fractures and bloodletting to heal. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Developed acupuncture therapies to help treat illness -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Figured that illness is a natural cause and not spiritually caused. The greek named Hippocrates (The father of medicine) did dissection to study the human body. -
100
Ancient Romans
The Romans learned from the Greeks that poor sanitation can cause disease. So they implemented sanitation systems to keep people clean. The Roman’s also organized medical care and sent them along with their army’s. They also started organizing hospitals aswell. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine
When the Huns conquered the Roman Empire they study of medicine stopped. From then on medicine was only practiced in monasteries because the church thought life and death was in gods hands. -
700
How do they treat disease
With prayer and herbal mixtures -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
The Bubonic plague spread and killed 60 million people. Other diseases at this time included smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
In this time universities and medical schools were built for research and dissection was finally fully accepted to study the human body. With the development of the printing press the publishing of books wide spread information everywhere. -
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 female body -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ears to the throat -
William Harvey
Was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
Antonio con Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope and found micro organisms that cause disease -
Apothecaries
Started the first pharmacies -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
Found that colds are contagious and invented bifocals -
Medical students learning
Started learning in lectures and observed patients bedside to better understand medicine. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered the vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Leannec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever -
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing -
Louis Pasteur
The father of microbiology -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Found that viruses cause some diseases -
Joseph Lister
Created the first antiseptic to kill microorganisms to prevent infection -
Ernest von Bergmann
Discovered asepsis -
Robert Koch
Developed the culture plate method to help identify pathogens -
Paul Ehrlich
Found a chemical to treat syphilis and did more research on how medicine fights disease -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered X-rays -
Anesthesia
Puts the patient to sleep to make it easier to perform an operation -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds which helped in the killing of bacteria -
Jonas stalk
Discovered that polio affected the most active and healthy people -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio vaccine to cure polio -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Is the pioneer of separating Siamese twins and surgeries on the brain to stop seizures -
Period: to
21 Century
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New Class Of Antibiotics
With bacteria becoming resistant to old antibiotics these new class of medication helps fight off bacteria that have grown resistant to some antibiotics -
Bionic Prosthetics
With bionic prosthetics people now have the ability to regain a functional limb with a a device instead of a regular prosthetic -
Artificial Organs
With the organ transplant list being long and difficult to get artificial organs are a lot easier to get a hold of and implant into a patient -
Laparoscopic surgery
This minimally invasive surgery used tides and small cameras to help provide a faster recovery time and less pain -
Robotic surgery
The Davinci robot is controlled by a surgeon that performs minimally invasive surgery that is clean and helps give a quicker recovery time