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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
disease
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting, amputations -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis-for heart
Quinine- digestion
Belladonna and atropine- digestion
Morphine-pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2990 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Heath records- the Egyptians
Who are physicians- the priest acted
How did they heal- blood letting with leeches -
Period: 2001 BCE to
21st century
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1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupunture- learned to treat illnesses and diseases with stone tools -
1860 BCE
Florence Nightingale
Attracted well educated, dedicated women to the nightangale -
999 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illnesses cause natural vs spiritual- they were the first to observe natural illness vs spiritual
Dissection- was not allowed by ancient times and religion
Hippocrates- the father of medicine -
100
Ancient Romans
Sanitation systems- was not a good sanitation system, but bought clean water for cities built sewer and clean restrooms
Organize medical care- Roman were the first to organize, and sent medical equipment to armies
Hospital development- started as a room in home, then building a public building for the sick -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark ages
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500
Ancient Roman’s
Stopped the study of medicines,why- they were conquered by Huns, because church believed life or death in gods hands -
700
Ancient Roman
How do they treat disease- herbal mixture's,prayers, care was custodial -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Ages
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1100
Ancient roman
Epidemic- bubonic plunge(the Black Death) -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Ancient Roman’s
Rebirth- new learnings, scientific processes
Universities- medical schools
Dissection-study the body
Books- published books for greater access to knowledge for research -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied records and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes if the female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
He was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope, established that there is a life smaller then the eye can see -
Apothecaries
We’re early pharmacies in this time -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals, and found colds can be passed to person to person -
Medical students learning
Teaching of medicine in lectures and laboratories with deceased human bodies and dissection -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox -
Rene laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of child bedfever (puerperal fever) -
Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology and discovered tiny microoganisms -
Dimitri ivanocski
Discovered that some diseases are caused by microorganisms that cat be seen with micro scope called viruses -
Joseph lister
Learned about Pasteur discovery that microorganisms cause infections -
Ernst von Bergmann
Developed asepsis(sterile condition,free from all germs) -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease-causing organisms -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine of disease-causing microorganisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-ray in 1895 -
Anesthesia
Loss of feeling or sensation it was not used -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious part of the mind -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compound -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyslitis -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus vaccine -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discover the molecular structure of DNA based the the double helix -
Christian Barnar
Preformed the first successful heart trans plant -
Ben Carson
Continues to be a pioneer in spreading Siamese twins and performing hemisphersctomies -
Period: to
21st century
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Robotics
Study and practice of the design, construction, operation in the use to robotics -
Targeted therapy in cancer treatment
A type of treatment that uses a substance to identify and attack cancer cells -
3D printing
Provides opportunities for comprehension of anatomical and pathological structures -
MRNA technology
It a molecule that contains the recipe that directs the cell to make a protein with using a natural machinery used to fight covid -
Virtual reality
It helps presented in different ways of body structure, variety conditions, and treatments