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4000 BCE
Primitive time
•Herbs and other plant based medicines were used
•Diseases were thought to be caused by the gods punishment
•20 years with men living longer than women -
3000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
•Religious and magic rituals and procedures were done
• Imhotep was the first physician in Egypt
•20-30 years -
1200 BCE
Ancient Chinese
•it was practiced because the human body is sacred
•they wanted to cure the spirit and nourish the body
•average age of about 20-30 years -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greek
•Hippocrates is the father of medicine
• Aristotle dissected animals and is called the father of comparative anatomy
•25-35 yrs -
753 BCE
Ancient Romans
•Aqueducts were made to carry fresh water and sewers were made to carry waste away
•The first hospitals were made
•25-35 years -
400
Dark ages
•No medical study because emphasis was on saving the soul
•prayers and divine intervention were used to treat the ill
•20-30yrs -
800
Middle Ages
•physicians went to medical university
•The bubonic plague killed 3/4 of Europe and Asia’s population
•rhazes based diagnostics on observations or the signs and symptoms, suggests blood was the cause for many diseases, and used animal guts for suture material
•20-35 yrs -
1350
Renaissance
•The science of medicine was reborn
•body’s were better understood due to dissecting
•Michelangelo and Da Vinci used dissection in order to draw the body more realistic
•30-40 yrs -
1501
16 and 17th centuries
•Cause of diseases was not known and many were dying
•Ambroise Pare the father of modern surgery blinded arteries to stop bleeding, eliminated boiling water use and improved treatment of fractures
•Gabriel Fallopius found the Fallopian tube and described the tympanic membrane
•35-45 yrs
• William Harvey described blood circulation
•Anton van Leeuwenhoek identified the Eustachian tube
•Apothecaries made, prescribed and sold medicine
•35-45 yrs -
18th and 19th centuries
•Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometers
•James Lind prescribes lime juice containing vitamin c to prevent scurvy
•Edward Jenner developed smallpox vaccine
•40-50 yrs
•First blood transfusions in 1818
•Elizabeth Blackwell was the first female physician
•Florence Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing
•Red cross founded in 1863
•Wilhelm Roentgen discoveries x-rays
•40-60 yrs -
20th century
•Penicillin was discovered by sir Alexander Fleming
•first open heart surgery
•First Kidney, lung and liver transplants
•CAT scans were developed
•first test tube baby
•60-70 yrs
