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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Primitive time
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3900 BCE
Medicine still used today
There are a few medicines from this era used today -
3800 BCE
They believed disease was caused by supernatural beings
They believed illness was caused by supernatural beings. It was believed that if people were disobedient, the gods would inflict their bodies with sickness or disease. ... Priests and medicine men treated illness through religious ceremonies. -
3700 BCE
Average life span (primitive time)
about 35 years
Unhygienic living conditions and little access to effective medical care meant life expectancy was likely limited to about 35 years of age. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
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2900 BCE
How they heal (ancient Egypt)
Egyptian medical practice went largely unchanged but was highly advanced for its time, including simple non-invasive surgery, setting of bones, dentistry, and an extensive set of pharmacopoeia. Egyptian medical thought influenced later traditions, including the Greeks. -
2800 BCE
The first physician
The first physician to emerge is Imhotep, chief minister to King Djoser in the 3rd millennium bce, who designed one of the earliest pyramids -
2700 BCE
Average lifespan (ancient Egypt)
average age at death of 19 years. However those who survived childhood had a life expectancy of 30 years for women* and 34 years for men -
Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
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1600 BCE
Dissection ancient China
Dissections of human bodies were seldom practised in ancient China because the human body was considered sacred. -
1600 BCE
Lifespan 16th century
Average life expectancy at birth for English people in the late 16th and early 17th centuries was just under 40 – 39.7 years. However, this low figure was mostly due to the high rate of infant and child mortality; over 12% of all children born would die in their first year. -
1400 BCE
Average lifespan ancient China
The lifespan of people in China were rarely over 70 as the profession of medicine was not great and advanced. Also there were many wars so the average age was around 40 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
Hippocrates of Kos, also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. -
370 BCE
ancient Greeks lifespan
Contrary to the commonly held belief that in antiquity and as late as 1700 A.D. normal lifespan was about 35 years, there are indications that the ancient Greeks lived longer. -
200 BCE
Sanitation systems
DescriptionSanitation in ancient Rome was well advanced compared to other ancient cities and was providing water supply and sanitation services to residents of Rome. -
100 BCE
Hospitals
Hospitals in ancient Rome were generally limited to military camps and the very late empire, after the establishment of Christianity. While legionary medical facilities were quite extensive, hospitals, as we know them today, simply didn't exist in the Roman world. -
300
Ancient Roman lifespan
When the high infant mortality rate is factored in (life expectancy at birth) inhabitants of the Roman Empire had a life expectancy at birth of about 25 years. However, when infant mortality is factored out, life expectancy is doubled to the late-50s. -
400
dark age Prohibited study of medicine
During the Dark Ages, the study of medicine was not allowed & prohibited. Smallpox, dysentery, typhus,the plague, tb, & malaria were spreading quickly and the Monks and priests stress prayed to try to treat the illness and disease. Medical universities were created in the 9th century. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Dark ages how did they treat disease
They relied on priests and monks to pray away the plague and disease -
600
Dark ages lifespan
the average life span of males born was 31.3 years and the biggest danger was surviving childhood. Once children reached the age of 10, their life expectancy was 32.2 years, and for those who survived to 25, the remaining life expectancy was 23.3 years. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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850
Medical university during the Middle Ages
The founding of the Universities of Paris, Bologna, Oxford, Montpelier and Padua, extended the initial work of Salerno across Europe, and by the 13th century, medical leadership had passed to these newer institutions. -
900
Middle Ages plagues
The two great epidemics of the Middle Ages included the Justinian plague in the sixth century and the Black Death of the fourteenth century. ... The plague pandemic of the fourteenth century was more terrifying and extended from Europe across Southwest Russia and to India. -
910
Rhazes
Rhazes was a great Persian physician, scholar, and philosopher of the medieval ages. He has had great contributions to the field of medicine and has been regarded as the best physician of his time. He had considerable contributions to the field of pediatrics and authored the first treatise on this field. -
1000
Middle Ages lifespan
the average life span of males born was 31 years -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1401
Rebirth
The Renaissance was a period of "rebirth" in arts, science and European society. It was a time of transition from the ancient world to the modern. -
1425
Dissection
Even though the Catholic Church prohibited dissection, artists and scientists performed dissection to better understand the body. Renaissance artists were anxious to gain specialized knowledge of the inner workings of the human body, which would allow them to paint and sculpt the body in many different positions. -
1450
Artists
Three great masters–Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael–dominated the period known as the High Renaissance -
1475
Lifespan renaissance
Average life expectancy at birth for English people in the renaissance was just under 40 – 39.7 years. -
1501
Cause of disease 16th century
I the early 16th century they realized that diseases were caused by poor hygiene and infection from open cuts/wounds instead of god and they could not pray away the sickness -
Period: 1501 to
16th century
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1510
Father of modern surgery
French physician, one of the most notable surgeons of the European Renaissance, regarded by some medical historians as the father of modern surgery. -
1523
Gabrielle Falloppio
Gabrielle Falloppio was an Italian Catholic priest and anatomist often known by his Latin name Fallopius. He was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century. -
Period: to
17th century
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William Harvey
William Harvey was an English physician who made influential contributions in anatomy and physiology. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek FRS was a Dutch businessman and scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists. -
Apothecaries
a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs. -
Average life span 17th century
17th-century English life expectancy was only about 35 years, largely because infant and child mortality remained high. Life expectancy was under 25 years in the early Colony of Virginia, and in seventeenth-century New England, about 40 percent died before reaching adulthood. -
Period: to
18th century
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig, then a predominantly German-speaking city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship -
James Lind
DescriptionJames Lind FRSE FRCPE was a Scottish doctor. He was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting one of the first ever clinical trials, he developed the theory that citrus fruits cured scurvy. -
Edward Jenner
DescriptionEdward Jenner, FRS FRCPE was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae, the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox -
Lifespan 18th century
around the year 1800, life expectancy throughout Europe hovered between 30 and 40 years of age. -
Period: to
19th century
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Blood transfusions
The 1800s. British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient for the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage. U.S. physicians attempt transfusing milk from cows, goats and humans. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
DescriptionElizabeth Blackwell was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. -
Florence nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. -
American Red Cross
Clara Barton and a circle of her acquaintances founded the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 1881. Barton first heard of the Swiss-inspired global Red Cross network while visiting Europe following the Civil War. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
DescriptionWilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. -
Average life span 19th century
Males lived to around 46 females lived to 50 -
Period: to
20th century
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic -
Open heart surgery Transplants
On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. -
Cat scan
A computerized tomography (CT) or computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan combines data from several X-rays to produce a detailed image of structures inside the body. CT scans produce 2-dimensional images of a “slice” or section of the body, but the data can also be used to construct 3-dimensional images. -
Test tube baby
World's first "test tube" baby born. On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England -
Average lifespan 2000
In 2000 the overall expectation of life at birth was 76.9 years,
