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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Primitive time
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3900 BCE
Important medicine that is still used today
They used to use herbs and plants, and some such as morphine for the pain as well as digitalis -
3800 BCE
Believed that this is what caused diseases
Hey believed that illnesses and diseases where caused by evil spirits and demons and to “cure” the patient, tribal doctors treated it with ceremonies to drive out the spirits -
3700 BCE
Average life span
There average life span was only around 20 years. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
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2900 BCE
How do they heal?
They relied on the “gods” to heal them when a disease occurred. -
2800 BCE
Who are physicians?and who was there 1st?
The physicians back then were the priests, they studied medicine and surgery in temple medical schools. Imhotep, was the first possible physician in the day. -
2700 BCE
Average life span
The life span now was ranging from 20-30 years. -
Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
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1600 BCE
Dissections (beliefs + results)
Religious refusals against dissection had resulted in poor knowledge of the human body. -
1500 BCE
Importance of whole body
They belived in caring for the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body. -
1400 BCE
Average lifespan
There life span remained the same at 20-30 years. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
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Period: 753 BCE to 410
Ancient romans
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460 BCE
Hippocrates
He was known as the father of medicine, he developed an organized method to examine the body, recorded many signs/symptoms of diseases, and created a high standard of ethics, the oath of Hippocrates, is used by physicians today. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
They dissected animals and is called the founder of comparable anatomy. -
370 BCE
Average life span
the life span of humans increased to about 25-35 years -
200 BCE
Sanitation system
some of the public health and sanitation systems: creating aqueducts to carry clean water to the cities, building sewers to carry waste away from the cities, using filtering systems in public baths to prevent diseases, and drained marshes to reduce the incidence of malaria. -
100 BCE
Hospitals
hospitals began to develop when physicans cared for ill people in rooms of their homes -
300
Average life span
average life span was still 25-35 years of age. -
400
Prohibited study of medicine and why?
a priority was placed on saving the soul, and the study of medicine was prohibited. prayer and divine intervention were utilized to treat illness and diseases. -
Period: 400 to 800
The Dark age
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500
How did they treat diseases?
the medications that were given were a herbal mixture type, and the monks and priests provided custodial care for sick people -
600
Average life span
the life span unfortunately dropped back down to 20-30 years. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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850
Medical universities
physicians began gaining knowledge at medical universties in the 9th century -
900
Pandemic
the pandemic of the bubonic plauge also known as the black death. it killed 3/4 of the population in countries such as Europe and Asia. -
910
Rhazes
an arab physican whom became known as Arab Hippocrates. -
1000
Average life span
average life span was still average, 20-35 years. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1401
Rebirth
it started the rebirth of the science of medicine -
1425
Dissection
they began dissecting the human body to get a better understanding of the anatomy and physiology. -
1450
Artisists
artsists like michelangelo and laenardo da vinci used dissection in order to draw out the human body and make it more realistic. -
1475
average life span
increasing to 30-40 years -
1501
cause of diseases
the causes where still unknown at this point in time and many people where dying from infections and childbirth fever. -
Period: 1501 to
16th century
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1510
father of modren surgery
Ambroise pare, a french surgeon whom was known as the father of modren surgrey he had did the following: he established the use of ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding and improved treatment of fractures and promoted use of artifical limbs. -
1523
Gaberiel fallopius
Gaberial identified the fallopian tubes in the female and described the tympanic membrane in the ear. -
average life span
35-45 years was the new average -
Period: to
17th century
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william harvey
he described the circulation of blood to and from the heart -
anaton van leeuwenhoek
created a powerful lense to see closer then the bare human eye will ever see, so he invented the microscope -
apothecaries
an early pharmacist made, perscribed and sold medications -
average life span
remained at 35-45 years -
Average life span
Average life span was 40-50 years -
Period: to
18th century
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Gaberiel Fahrenheit
Created the first ever mecury thermometer -
James Lind
He perscribed lime juice contaning the vitamin C to prevnt scruvy -
Edward Jenner
developed a vaccination to smallpox -
Period: to
19th century
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Blood transfusion
the first ever successful blood transfusion was preformed on humans by James Blundell. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Became the first female Physican in the US -
Florence Nightingale
Theodor Fliedner started one of the first training programs for nurses in Germany and provided Florence Nightengale with her proper training. -
American Red Cross
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross -
William Roentgen
Roentgen named it after themselves, the Roentgenograms, also known as a X-ray. -
Aversge life Span
Average lifespan was 40 to 60 years. -
Period: to
20th century
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Sir Alexander Fleming
discovered the widely used Penicillin -
Open heart Surgery
The first heart lung machine was used for the first open heart surgery. -
Transplants
The 4 biggest transplants included: A severed arm at the shoulder and was reattached, a liver transplant, a lung transplant and a successful heart transplant. -
CAT scan
CAT scan or more defined as Computerized Axial Tomography, which helped with seeing what was inside the body without having to cut open the patient. -
Test tube baby
The first test tube baby was named Louise Brown and was born in England -
Average life span
Average life span is about the same as today (60-70 years) and will most likely increase as we go
