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Some medicines used today were first used way back in primitive times, although in different forms. For example, morphine was a common medicine used in this period, and was ingested with the poppy plant, which contained opium, the primary ingredient in morphine
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The Ancients believed disease was caused by supernatural spirits and demons, so they tried everything to try and drive them out.
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The average expected life span of people in this era was only 20 years.
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The Egyptians prayed upon their gods to help heal them, because they believed that their gods had the power to fix what was wrong with them if they worshipped enough
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Priests became the first physicians from studying medicine and surgery in temple medical schools. The very 1st physician may have been a man named Imhotep, around 2725 B.C.
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The average life span for an ancient egyptian was only 20-30 years
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The Ancient Chinese religion prevented the physicians to perform dissections, preventing the adequate knowledge of the human body.
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The Chinese believed in treating the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body.
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The Average life span of the ancient Chinese was 20-30 years.
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Hippocrates was a Greek physician who is called the Father of Modern Medicine. He developed an organized way to observe the human body, recorded signs and symptoms of many diseases, and made a code of ethics for doctors called the Hippocrates Oath, which is still used by physicians today.
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Aristotle lives in Ancient Greece and is called the Father of Comparative Anatomy. He believed illness was a result of natural causes, used massage, art and herbal therapies, and stressed that a good diet and cleanliness was a good way to prevent disease.
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The Ancient romans used sanitation systems such as creating aqueducts to flow clean water into the city and dirty water out, building waste sewers to carry waste materials away form the city, using filtering systems in public baths to prevent disease, and draining marshes to reduce the incidence of malaria.
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The early Roman hospitals were physicians caring for sick people in their homes. Later, more developed hospitals were religious and charitable institutions housed in monasteries or churches.
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The average life span for ancient Romans was 25-35 years
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The average life span for ancient Greeks was about 25-35 years.
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Believed that the healing of the soul was more important than the body.
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People in the dark ages used prayers and divine intervention to treat diseases.
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The average life span of a person in the Dark Ages was 20-30 years
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Physicians started to learn at medical universities in the 9th century
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The bubonic plague was a pandemic that killed 3/4 of the population of Europe and Asia.
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Was known as the Arab Hippocrates. He based diagnostics on observations from the symptoms and signs of the patient, he developed criteria for distinguishing between smallpox and measles, discovered that blood was the cause of many infectious diseases, and started the use of animal gut for sutures.
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The average elite span of a person in the Middle Ages was 20-35 years
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Science and medicine were rebirthed
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People started to dissect bodies, which lead to a better understanding of anatomy and physiology
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Artists Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci used dissection to draw anatomy better and more realistically.
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The average life span of some in the renaissance was 30-40 years
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The average lifespan of someone in the 16th century was 35-45 years
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Causes of diseases were still unknown as many people died from infections and fever.
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Ambroise Pare was a French surgeon known as the father of modern surgery. He established the use of ligatures to tie off arteries and stop bleeding, eliminated the use of boiling oil to cauterize wounds, and improved treatment of fractures and encouraged the use of artificial limbs.
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He identified the Fallopian tubes on a female and described the tympanic membrane in the ear
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He described the circulation of blood to and from the heart.
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Invented the microscope
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Another name for early pharmacists who made, prescribed, and sold medications
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The average lifespan of someone in the 17th century was 35-45 years
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Created the first mercury thermometer in 1714
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Prescribed lime juice which contained vitamin C to prevent scurvy
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Developed a vaccination for smallpox
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The average life span of someone in the 18th century was 40-50 years
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First successful blood transfusion was performed on humans by James Blundell
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1st female physician in the USA
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Founder of Modern Nursing. She established sanitized nursing units during the Crimean war, opened a hospital and nursing school, And began the professional education of nurses.
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International Red Cross was founded
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Discovered X-Rays
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The average life span of someone in the 19th century was 40-60 years
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Discovered Penicillin
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The first open heart surgery was performed
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Now able to transplant, kidneys, livers, and lungs
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Computerized axial Tomography was developed
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The first baby made from a test tube was born, Louise Brown
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The average Life span of someone living in the 20th century is 60-70 years
