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1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Medical pioneers learned variety’s of illness and diseases by using stone tools. Methods were growing to work more into advanced practice. This is still common until this day. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Ancient Greeks were the first to study about diseases and they use salaried temples for healing. They were not allowed to dissect body’s Took notes and founded symptoms of many diseases, based on his knowledge they were able to observe body’s. -
100
Ancient Roman’s
They brought clean water into cities and built sewers and public buildings for the people that were ill. Ancient Roman’s sent equipment and physicians with armies to care for soldiers who are hurt or wounded. Romans kept a room in their houses for ill. -
Period: 400 to 300
Early beginnings
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500
Stopped the study of medicine, why?
They stopped giving medicine because life and death were in gods hands and medicine was only in convents and monasteries. -
700
How do they treat disease
They treated diseases by using vaccines and medications. -
1100
Epidemics
They had terrible deaths during this period of epidemics. -
1450
Rebirth
They used university buildings for medical schools for their research.
For dissection they accepted for dissection for the study of the body.
For books they the had printing presses for publishing books and access knowledge from researching. -
1515
Leonardo da Vinci
He studied recorded the anatomy of the body. -
1550
Gabrielle Fallopius
He discovered the Fallopian tubes of the female anatomy. -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
He discovered the tube of that was leading from the ear to the throat. -
William Harvey
He used his knowledge to understand physiology and was able to describe the circulation of blood and pumping their heart. -
Antonie von leeuwenhoek
Antonie invented the microscope so there life is smaller and the eye can see. Also he scraped his teeth and found bacteria. -
Apothecaries
They engaged in flourishing trade that were in drugs and spices, not only that but they were early pharmacies too -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin has many different discoveries. He figured out colds could be passed from person to person and he discovered bifocals. -
Medical students learning
Medical students learn about health and tools you will use if you work in healthcare. Medical students will learn a lot about healthcare and it depends what you do. Back in the day they used differ types of medicine, tools, etc. they didn’t use the tools what we have today. -
Joseph Priestley
Joseph discovered the element of oxygen and observed plants that were fresh for oxygen. -
Edward Jenner
He is the one that discovered methods for vaccination for smallpox which killed many people in epidemics. Then his discovery saved millions of lives. -
Rene Laennec
He invested a stethoscope which was made out of wood. It makes it so you can hear the heart and lungs allowing the doctors to see if the disease was present. -
Ignaz Semmelweis
He found the cause of women death from a fever after birth. Physicians went to the dead room, and didn’t wash their hands or change aprons before delivery babies. Then after studying washing your hands and cleanliness became accepted practice. -
Florence Nightingale
She was well educated, and also dedicated women to the Nightingale school and nursing. Nursing became a respectable profession. -
Louis Pasteur
The father of Microbiology and discovered tiny microorganisms were everywhere. He proved they caused a disease. He also discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of more bacteria. -
Dmitri Ivanovski
He discovered some diseases are caused by microorganisms that can’t be seen through a microscope. They are called viruses and they were not studied until the electron microscope was invented. -
Joseph Lister
He l discovered that microorganisms causes infections. He used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs so infections don’t come around. He became the first doctor to use a antiseptic during surgery. -
Ernst von Bergmann
He knew that germs causes infections easily. He developed asepsis and a method to keep gn area germ free before and during the surgery. -
Robert Koch
He discovered many disease causing organisms. He developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and isolate the bacterium. -
Paul Ehrlich
He discovered the effect of medicine on disease that were causing microorganisms. The treatments was effect against some microorganisms but not effective for killing other types of bacteria. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-rays in 1985. He discovery’s allowed doctors to see what was inside bodies and helped them discover what was wrong with patients. -
Anesthesia
For anesthesia They used herbs, hashish, and alcohol to help relieve the pain of surgery. They choked patients to cause unconsciousness to stop pain. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovery for penicillin is considered one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century. Before it was discovered, people died if illness that was considered curable today. -
Sigmund Freud
He discovered the conscious and unconscious part of mind which is interesting. He studied the effects of the unconscious mind on the body. -
Gerard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds. They were the first medications effective in killing bacteria. -
Jonas Salk
He discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis. This virus paralyzed thousands of adults and children every year. -
Albert Sabin
Albert used a live polio virus vaccine, which is more effective for people. The vaccine was used to immunize babies for this disease. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
They both discovered the molecular structure of DNA. They had a model to explain how it replicates and how hereditary information id coded. -
Christian Barnard
He performed the first successful heart transplant. -
Ben Carson
Contained to be pioneer in separating Siamese twins and continued to perform hemispherectomies and including surgery’s to stop seizures. -
5 advancements in medicines
- Stone tools is an important medicine they used because it cured illness and diseases.
- Massage and herbal therapies is another medicine that also helped with diseases and help Eliminate superstition
- Leeches were used to help heal skin and restore blood circulation. 4.physicians had a noble and sacred temples to help with healing also.
- Splinting fractures, and treated disorders by bloodletting with leeches so blood will drain.
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Ancient Egyptians
Leeches used as a skin treatment
Physicians had a noble and sacred mission for temple of healing
Massage and herbal therapies -
Treatments for the sick
Blood letting
Exorcism
Prayer time add division -
Disease caused by
Evil spirits