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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatment's
Prayer, exorcism -
3100 BCE
Medicines
Digitalis for heart
Quinine for digestion
Belladonna and atropine for digestion
Morphine pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Egyptians kept accurate Health records
Physicians are priests
Used leeches for healing -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Used stone tools to treat illnesses and diseases -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
The first to study the disease and determine that is was nature rather than spiritual. Dissection wasn’t allowed in ancient times by religions Hippocrates is the father of medicine -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Sanitation systems wasn’t good Romans were first to Organize medical care, sent equipment and physicians with armies to care for wounded soldiers. Hospital development started as a room from a physician for the ill -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stoping the study of medicine
Roman Empire was conquered by the Huns -
700
How they treat diseases
With a prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Diseases affecting many people at the same time -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
Universities and medical schools for research Allowed Dissection for study Published Books for knowledge from research -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabrielle fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Used his knowledge for physiology and was able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart -
Antonio von leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from the east -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals and that colds can be transferred from person to person -
Medical students
Observed patients at bedside and when they passed they dissected the body and understood the the causes of illnesses and death. -
Joseph Priestly
Discovered the element oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19/20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever -
Florence nightingale
Attracted well educated, dedicated women to the nightingale school of nursing -
Louis Pasteur
Known as father of microbiology. Discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere. -
Dmitri ivanovki
Discovered that some diseases are cause by microorganisms that cannot be seen in the microscope -
Joseph Lister
Learned that microorganisms cause infections. -
Ernst von bergmann
Developed asepsis -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease causing organisms -
Paul ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms -
Wilhelm roentgen
Discovered X-rays -
Anesthesia
Loss of feeling or sensation -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life-threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind -
Gerhard domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus vaccine which is more effective -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Continues to be a pioneer in separating Siamese twins -
Period: to
21st century
More advanced technology
More knowledge on medicines
More knowledge on surgery’s
More sanitation
More safe environment to perform surgery’s and research