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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Primitive time
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3900 BCE
Used herbs and plants to heal illness
They used things like morphine for pain and digitalis for the heart both of which we still use today -
3800 BCE
Belief that illness and diseases were evil spirits
They would hold ceremonies to try and rid the sick person of the bad spirits -
3700 BCE
Average lifespan was around 20 years old
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Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
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2900 BCE
Used leaches, plants and “magic” to heal
They believed that a person would become “clogged” when sick and would use leaches and/or bloodletting to “open” them up. Also used plants and some “magic” to treat diseases. -
2800 BCE
First ever physicians
They were priests that studied surgery from the temple books First one was possibly imhoptep -
2700 BCE
Average lifespan was 20-30 years
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Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
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1600 BCE
Dissection
religion prohibits dissection resulting in a poor understanding of the human body. -
1500 BCE
Importance of the WHOLE body
believed that to heal someone they needed to treat the whole body and spirit, used things like acupuncture to keep the body's "Flow ways" clean and healthy -
1400 BCE
Average life span
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
"the father of medicine" -
384 BCE
Aristotle
dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy -
370 BCE
Average life span
25-35 years -
200 BCE
Sanitation Systems
created aqueducts for clean water, built sewers, used filtering systems in public baths, and drained marshes to reduce malaria. -
100 BCE
Hospitals
first hospital style care with physicians caring for patents in rooms of there homes -
1 CE
After death
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300
Average life span
25-35 years -
400
Prohibited study of medicine
they thought saving the soul was more important and focused only on that -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark ages
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500
how they treat disease
prayer and Devine intervention were used to cure the ill -
600
Average life span
20-30 years -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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850
Medical Universities
physicians began to retain information at medical university's -
900
Pandemic
the bubonic plague (black Death) kills 3/4ths of the population of Europe and Asia. -
910
Rhazes
an Arab physician that became known as the Arab Hippocrates -
1000
Average life span
20-35 years -
Period: 1350 to
Renascence
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1401
Rebirth
the rebirth of science and medicine -
1425
Dissection
dissection of the body allows for a better understanding of the body and medicine -
1450
Artists
artist Michelangelo and Da Vinci used dissection to draw very detailed drawings of the human body -
1475
Average life span
30-40 years -
1501
Cause of Disease
diseases still not understood and many people died to them and baby fever. -
Period: 1501 to
16th century
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1510
Father of Modern surgery
Ambroise pare, known as the father of modern surgery -
1523
Gabriel Fallopius
identified the fallopian tubes in a woman, as well as described the tympanic membrane in the ear -
Average life span
35-45 years -
Period: to
17th century
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William Harvey
described the circulation of blood too and from the heart. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
early pharmacist, made, prescribed, and sold medications -
Average life span
35-45 years -
Period: to
18th century
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
created the first mercury thermometer -
James Lind
prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to help with scurvy -
Edward Jenner
developed a vaccine for smallpox -
Average life span
40-50 years -
Period: to
19th century
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Blood Transfusion
first successful blood transfusion done by james blundell -
Elizabeth Blackwell
became the first female physician on the U.S -
Florence Nightingale
the founder of modern nursing -
American Red Cross
founded by Clara Barton -
Wilhelm Roentgen
discovered roentgenograms (X-Rays) -
Average life span
40-60 years -
Period: to
20th century
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Sir Alexander Fleming
discovered penicillin -
Open heart surgery
the first heart lung machine was used in an open heart surgery -
Transplants
first successful heart transplant - Christion Barnard
first successful kidney transplant - Joseph Murray
first successful lung transplant - James Hardy -
CAT Scan
the cat scan or computerized axial tomography scan was invented -
Test tube baby
the first "test tube" baby Louise Brown was born in England -
Average life span
60-70 years
