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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 is used for heart
Quinine is for fever
Belladonna and Atropine is for GI pain
Morphine is for pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
First to keep accurate Health Records
Physicians = Priests
Used leeches to heal -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
First to use acupuncture with stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
First to realize illness is natural cause - not spiritual
Did not allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates - wrote standard of ethics = Oath of Hippocrates -
100
Ancient Romans
First to develop sanitation system
First to organize medical care
Beginning of hospital development- built houses for ill -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the Study of Medicine, Why?
Life and Death were in Gods hands -
700
How do they Treat Disease?
Prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics- caused millions of deaths - uncontrolled diseases -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
Built universities + medical schools
Accepted dissection to study body
Developed printing press = published books -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo Da Vinci
Studied and recorded anatomy of body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered Eustachian tube -
William Harvey
Able to describe circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
Invented microscope -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacies - trade in drugs and spices -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals - colds could be passed from person to person -
Medical Students Learning
Students attended lectures, observed patients -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered element oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered method of vaccination/immunization for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified cause of child bed fever -
Florence Nightingale
Dedicated women to the Nightingale School of Nursing -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered tiny microorganisms were everywhere and caused disease -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Discovered virus - diseases caused by microorganisms -
Joseph Lister
First doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery -
Ernst von Bergmann
Developed aspesis -
Robert Koch
Discovered disease-causing organisms
Introduced cleanliness to prevent spread of disease -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered X-rays -
Anesthesia
Nitrous oxide and chloroform used for anesthesia -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Discovered a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
First to use a live polio virus vaccine -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA based on its double helix -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
First to perform hemispherectomies and separate Siamese twins -
Period: to
21st Century
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CyberKnife
FDA approved cyberknife for treatment of tumors -
Anthony Atala
Started the WFIRM for 3D printing synthetic organs -
Bionic Limbs
Worlds first bionic hand was released with 5 individual moving fingers -
EHR
Department of Health and Human Services pushed medical community to use electronic health records -
Lab Grown Blood
Worlds first lab grown blood transfusion for volunteering patients