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3900 BCE
Diseases caused by?
Evil spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Blood letting
Exorcism
Prayer and Devine intervention -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis - Used for heart conditions
Quinine - Controls fever, relives musical pain, and helps prevent malaria
Belladonna and Atropine - Relives musical pain
Morphine - Treats severe pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records - Ancient Egyptians had the earliest accurate records.
Who are physicians? - Workers and artist who had noble and sacred missions to save people.
How did they heal? - Splinting fractures, bloodletting with leaches medication. -
2022 BCE
Telemedicine
It improves communication between doctors and allows the patients quicker results. -
2022 BCE
Genetic research
Genetic research eliminates the possibilities of disabling diseases. -
2022 BCE
Improving nursing care
Many advances are being made in patients care related to the role of the nurse. -
2022 BCE
Assistant living centers
These facilities are making improvements to meet the physical, emotional, and mental needs of our senior citizens. -
2022 BCE
Attentive medicine
Doctors are more widely excepting alternative medicine or practices such as acupuncture as part of healing. -
2022 BCE
Technology
Portable and hand held devices help with diagnosis, record keeping, and research. -
Period: 2001 BCE to 2022 BCE
21st centuries
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1987 BCE
Ben Carson
He does surgeries on the brains to stop seizures, and separates connected twins at birth. -
1968 BCE
Christian Barnard
He created the first successful heart transplant. -
1962 BCE
Francis Crick and James Watson
They discovered the molecular structure of DNA. -
1961 BCE
Albert Sabin
He discovered a live polio virus which is more effective. -
1955 BCE
Jonas Salk
He discovered a vaccine for polio. -
1945 BCE
Gerhard Domagk
He discovered sulfonamide compounds. -
1930 BCE
Sigmund Freud
He discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. -
1928 BCE
Sir Alexander Fleming
He created penicillin. -
1925 BCE
Anesthesia
It helps prevent patients from waking up during a painful surgery. -
1920 BCE
Wilhelm Roentgen
He discovered X-rays. -
1912 BCE
Paul Ehrlich
He discovered a treatment for syphilis. -
1910 BCE
Robert Koch
He discovered the culture plate method to identify pathogens and introduced the importance of cleanliness and sanitation when trying to prevent diseases. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture - Practiced since the Stone Age, an Ancient art of using tools to heal. -
1895 BCE
Joseph Lister
He developed asepsis to keep an area clean before and during surgeries. -
1895 BCE
Joseph Lister
He was the first to use an antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection. -
1892 BCE
Dmitri Ivanovski
He discovered viruses. -
1885 BCE
Louis Pasteur
He was the father of microbiology, discovered the pasteurization, and the vaccine for rabies. -
1860 BCE
Florence Nightingale
She was the founder of modern nursing. -
1860 BCE
Ignaz Semmelweis
He identify the cause of child bed fever. -
Period: 1801 BCE to 2000 BCE
19th and 20th centuries
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1799 BCE
Rene Laennec
He invented the stethoscope. -
1796 BCE
Edward Jenner
He discovered a vaccine for small pocks. -
1755 BCE
Joseph Priestley
He discovered oxygen, and it’s role in reparation. -
1750 BCE
Medical students learning
They attended lectures and labs, they observe patients from the bedside, and dissected bodies after the patient died. -
1730 BCE
Ben Franklin
He discovered bifocals, and the fact the colds can be spread from person to person, -
Period: 1701 BCE to 1800 BCE
18th century
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1675 BCE
Apothecaries
The first form of a pharmacy. -
1666 BCE
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
He discovered the microscope. -
1628 BCE
William Harvey
He described the circulation of the blood and the pumping of the heart. -
1563 BCE
Bartolommeo Eustachio
He discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat. -
1550 BCE
Gabriele Fallopius
He discovered the Fallopian tubes of the female anatomy. -
1515 BCE
Leonardo De Vinci
He studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. -
Period: 1501 BCE to 1700 BCE
16th and 17th centuries
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1450 BCE
Rebirth
Universities - The universities and medical schools for research were established.
Dissection - Now is acceptable practice to study the human body.
Books - It allowed research to be shared with others. -
Period: 1350 BCE to 1650 BCE
Renaissance
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1100 BCE
Epidemics
Epidemics such as - Black deaths, small pocks, and tuberculosis killed millions of people during this time period. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness cause nature vs. spiritual - Ancient Greeks proved that diseases have natural causes and were not caused by supernatural spirits.
Dissection - Religious customs prohibited dissection.
Hippocrates - Hippocrates is the father of medicine who’s research supported the theory of natural causes for illness. -
Period: 800 BCE to 1400 BCE
Middle age
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700 BCE
How did the treat disease?
They treated diseases mostly through prayers, and custodial care. -
500 BCE
stopped the study of medicine, why?
Medicine was only practiced in convents and monasteries because the Huns believe life and death were in Gods hands. They did not care how the body works. -
Period: 400 BCE to 800 BCE
The dark age
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100 BCE
Ancient Romans
Sanitation systems - They built Aqueducts to bring in clean water and build sewers to take wast away, and the built public baths with filtering systems.
Organize medical care - They were the first to send medical care with the army.
Hospital Development - They had rooms in there houses for the sick which then lead to them making a hospital later on. -
Period: to
Early beginnings