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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by
Evil spirits -
3606 BCE
Treatments for sick
Bloodletting with leaches
Acupuncture with stone tools
Herbal therapies -
3600 BCE
medicines used today
-Digitals can increase blood flow throughout your body & reduces swelling in your hands and ankles
-Quinine works by killing the parasite or preventing it from growing
-Belladonna and Atropine act as competitive antagonist that block the central nervous system
-Morphine is used to relieve moderate to sever pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records- medicine in Egypt was understood as a combination of practical techniques and magical incantations. They used bandages, splints and even the broken bones in surgical procedures were described through magic spells. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chines
Acupuncture started in China about 3000 years ago. The first document of acupuncture was described as an organized system of diagnosis & treatment. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
The main under standing of natural causes of sickness was being too hot, cold, dry or wet disturbed the balancebettween the humors, resulting illness. The Hippocrates focused on the natural treatment to approach the disease.
Dissection was banned in Greece because human dissection was considered t be blasphemous. -
100
Ancient Romans
The romans had a complex system of sewers covered by stones, much like modern sewers. Ancient romans were the first to organize health care by providing treatments for solders, which was the first hospital -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Ages
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500
Stoped the Study of Medicine
Due to lack of scientific understanding they stoped the study of medicine. Training physicians and medical students made new discoveries that fit old theories. -
700
How do they treat disease?
They treated them by suppressions, religion, and herbal remedies. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
common diseases were dysentery, malaria, diphtheria, flu, typhoid, small pox and leprosy. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
European Universities had great intellectual and religious influence like rebirth.even though the Catholic church prohibited dissection scientist performed it to understand the body. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci focused on the art of human anatomy . He injected the blood vessels and cerebral ventricles with wax for preservation. -
1550
Gabriel Fallopius
his contributions to neuroanatomy laid the foundation for others. He also discovered and named manny parts of the human body. -
1563
Bartolomeo Eustachio
He spent most of his career in Rome where he taught anatomy. he was the first who described the structure of the dental pulp , periodontal membrane, thoracic duct, abducens nerve, and adrenal glands. -
William Harvey
He was an English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation the human body and provided experiments and argued to prove this. -
Antonie van leeuwenhoek
He discovered blood cells, and was the first person to see living sperm cells of animals. -
Apothecaries
Apothecary is a mostly archaic term for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses materia medica (medicine) to physicians, surgeons, and patients. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
He was also a medical activist and inventor championing small pox inclusion, taking a leading role in founding hospitals. -
medical students learning
The medical college of Peiping was founded the first medical school in china. by the twelfth century. -
joseph priestley
He invented carbonated water and the rubber eraser, identified a dozen chemical compounds, and wrote an important early paper about electricity. -
Edward jenner
He made the concept of vacations including creating the small pox vaccine. -
Rene laennec
He invented the stethoscope. -
Period: to
19th and 20th century
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Florence Nightingale
She dedicated her life to the treatment of the sick and frail, changed the design of hospitals, and developed the field of preventive medicine. -
Ignaz semmelweiser
He was the first physician in medical history who demonstrated that puerperal fever which was contagious and could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand washing. -
Louis Pasteur
He pioneered the study of molecular asymmetry, discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and disease, and originated the process of pasteurization. -
Dmitri Ivanovsky
He contributed in microbiology.
He determined that the infection was mosaic disease, which was believed at the time to be caused by bacteria. -
Joseph Lister
He reduce the incidence of wound infection by the introduction of antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid. -
Ernst von Bergmann
He introduced the steam sterilization of instruments and dressings. -
Robert Koch
He won the Nobel prize for investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis. -
Paul Ehrlich
He transfers blood serum with antibodies to treat and counteract diphtheria. -
Wilhelm röntgen
His discovery of the X-ray revolutionized the modern practice of medicine in ways that he could never imagined. -
Anesthesia
Anesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical purposes. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
He discovered penicillin which started the antibiotic revolution. -
Gerhard Domagk
He discovered sulfonamides could be used to counter act bacteria that cause blood poising. -
Jonas salk
He was an American medical researcher who discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. -
Albert Sabin
He was famous all over for his development of the oral polio vaccine. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
They marked a milestone in the history of science and gave rise to modern molecular biology, -
Christiaan Barnard
He led the team that performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant. -
Ben Carson
He figured in the revival of the hemispherectomy, a drastic surgical procedure in which part or all of one hemisphere of the brain is removed to control severe pediatric epilepsy. -
circadian clock
Studying a tiny cluster of nerve cells behind the eye. -
Period: to
21st century
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Protein Transfer
Transfer of proteins separated in a gel by electrophoresis to a solid support matrix. -
Kidney Failure Markers
Persistent increased protein in the urine two positive tests over 3 or more months. -
3D printing body parts
Taking stem cells from the patient and printing them on a layer of hydrogel to form a tendon or ligament. -
Unlock in Blood Brian Barrier
Impedes the delivery of large drug molecules . Several studies have shown that it can be non-invasively opened by applying low intensity focused ultrasound in it.