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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Primitive Time
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3900 BCE
Important Medicines Still Used Today
In Primitive times herbs and plants were used for medicines such as morphine for digitals in the heart and pain which is still used today. -
3800 BCE
Believed Disease Was Caused By
During this time, people believed that diseases were from gods, spirts, and demons. -
3700 BCE
Average Lifespan (3700BC)
The average lifespan in the primitive time was only around 20 years of age. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
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2900 BCE
How Do They Heal?
To heal illness and disease they used magic, medicinal plants, and looked to the gods to help them. -
2800 BCE
Who Are Physicians? Who Was The 1st?
Most of the first physicians in ancient Egypt were priests that studied medicine. Imhotep was known as the first physician and was considered the god of medicine. -
2700 BCE
Average life span
The average lifespan in Ancient Egypt was around 20-30 years. -
Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
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1600 BCE
Dissection (Beliefs and Result)
Human body dissection was rarely practiced because of religious beliefs and the body was known as sacred. -
1500 BCE
Importance of the WHOLE body
Ancient Chinese believed that the body should be medically observed and treated as a whole with curing of the spirit and nourishment of the body. -
1400 BCE
Average Lifespan (2700BC)
The average lifespan during the ancient Chinese time period was 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
Greek physician, Hippocrates, was called the father of medicine for his beliefs and methods of observing the body along with the Oath of Hippocrates. He documented symptoms and signs of diseases and created standards for ethics. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
Aristotle was known for dissecting animals and comparative anatomy concepts. -
370 BCE
Average lifespan
The average lifespan of ancient Greeks was 25-35 years. -
200 BCE
Sanitation System
Ancient Rome invented the earliest sewer systems using aqueducts, drains, filtering systems, and sewers to improve the sanitation of water and reduce likelihood of malaria. -
100 BCE
Hospitals
Once soldiers did not have access to be treated in homes anymore, they started to use charitable and religious establishments as hospitals. -
300
Average Lifespan (0300AD)
25-35 years was the average lifespan in 300AD. -
400
Prohibited Study of Medicine, Why?
The study of medicine was prohibited in the dark age because the people believed saving the soul. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
How Do They Treat Disease?
During this time they treated illness and disease with religious practices and prayer. -
600
Average lifespan (0600AD)
The dark Age had an average lifespan of 20-30 years. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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850
Medical Universities
Physicians began to learn at medical universities in the Middle Ages. -
900
Pandemic (0900AD)
In the middle ages the Bubonic plague or Black Death killed around 3/4 of the population in Europe and Asia. -
910
Rhazes
Rhazes was an Asian physician who diagnosed patients based on observations and symptoms of disease, developed differences between smallpox and measles, believed blood could be the cause of diseases, and used animal guts for sutures. -
1000
Average Lifespan (1000AD)
20-35 years was the average lifespan in the Middle Ages. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1401
Rebirth
The Renaissance is commonly called the rebirth of science medicine because of the new information and resources available to them that advanced medicine. -
1425
Dissection
In this time physicians began to dissect the body which helped to better understand the human body and anatomy. -
1450
Artists
Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were able to draw the human body very realistically and accurately with the help of dissection. -
1475
Average Lifespan (1475AD)
During the Renaissance the average lifespan was 30-40 years. -
1501
Cause of Disease
Causes to different diseases were still unknown and there were lots of deaths from disease, infection, and puerperal fever. -
Period: 1501 to
16th Century
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1510
Father of Modern Surgery
Ambroise Pare was a French surgeon who used ligatures to bind arteries and stop bleeding, eliminated the usage of boiling oil for wounds, and improved the way fractures were treated while also promoting the use of artificial limbs. -
1523
Gabriel Fallopius
Gabriel Fallopius discovered and identified the fallopian tubes in females, he also described the tympanic membrane in the ear. -
Average Lifespan(1600AD)
35-45 years was the average lifespan in the 16th century. -
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17th Century
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William Harvey
In 1628 William Harvey described the circulation of blood that goes to and from the heart. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
The microscope was invented in 1666 by Anton van Leeuwenhoek. -
Apothecaries
Apothecaries were the early pharmacists of the 17th century that would make, prescribe, and sell medicines. -
Average Lifespan (1700AD)
In the 16th and 17th century the average lifespan was 35-45 years of age. -
Period: to
18th Century
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
The first mercury thermometer was made by Gabriel Fahrenheit in 1714 -
James Lind
James Lind used lime juice which contains vitamin C for a patient to prevent scurvy. -
Edward Jenner
A vaccination for small pox was created by Edward Jenner in 1796 -
Average Lifespan (1800AD)
The 18th century had an average lifespan of 40-50 years. -
Period: to
19th Century
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Blood Transfusion
In 1818 the first successful human blood transfusion was preformed by James Blundell. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell in 1849, became the first female physician in the United States. -
Florence Nightingale
Modern nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale, she created sanitary and efficient nursing units during the Crimean War, opened a school named after her, opened homes for nurses, and began to education nurses professionally. -
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. The international Red Cross was founded in 1863 -
Wilhelm Roentgen
The roentgenogram (X-ray) was discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in the year 1895. -
Average Lifespan (1900AD)
The average lifespan was 40-60 years in the 19th century. -
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20th Century
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 discovered penicillin which treats infections -
Open Heart Surgery
Open heart surgery happened in 1953 using the first heart-lung machine. -
Transplants
In the 1960‘s there were many successful transplants that were preformed including transplants for the liver, lung, heart, and kidney. -
CAT Scan
In 1975 the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan was developed. -
Test Tube Baby
In England, 1978, Louise Brown was the first “test tube” baby was born. -
Average Lifespan (2000AD)
The average lifespan in the 20th century was 60-70 years.
