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Period: 4000 BCE to
Primitive time
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3900 BCE
Important medicines still used today
Podophyllum is used to remove growths on the body like warts -
3800 BCE
Believed disease was caused by
They believed it to be cause by an excess of bile and phlegm -
3700 BCE
Average life span
40-58 years old -
Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
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2900 BCE
How do they heal
Sometimes the had surgery’s, most of the time they would make ointments out of animals, and plants -
2800 BCE
Who are physician’s? Who was the first?
Imhotep -
2700 BCE
Average life span
About 58 years -
Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
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1600 BCE
Dissection (beliefs and results)
The leader at that time named wang mang wanted the dismembering of a rebels body -
1500 BCE
Importance of the WHOLE body
It was important cause it was someone’s life -
1400 BCE
Average life span
Around 45 -
Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
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460 BCE
Hippocrates
He was the founder of medicine -
384 BCE
Aristotle
He was the founder of Lyceum -
370 BCE
Average life span
The most average people would live to would be 4 years old -
400
Prohibited study of medicine
Because they believed illnesses and diseases were cured by praying and Devine intervention -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
How do they treat disease
Going to church and praying -
600
Average life span
Around 35 -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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850
Medical universities
Studium generale -
900
Pandemic
hantavirus infection -
910
Rhazes
Smallpox -
1000
Average lifespan
35 years old -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1401
Rebirth
Renaissance means rebirth this time period was called that because people started taking interest in learning ancient times like Ancient Greek and Rome -
1425
Dissection
Pulling the genome in opposite directions to dissect gene networks -
1450
Artist
Matteo Lappoli, Leonardo Da Vinci, -
1475
Average life span
69 years old -
1501
Cause of disease
It was called the sweating sickness but no one has ever found out what it was caused from -
Period: 1501 to
16th century
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1510
Father of Modern surgery
Ambroise Paré -
1523
Gabriel Fallopius
The Fallopian tube was named after him -
Average life span
Just under 40 years old -
Period: to
17th century
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William Harvey
He did research on blood flow in the human body -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
One of the first microscopist and microbiologist -
Apothecaries
A drug jar -
Average life span
About 35 years -
Period: to
18th century
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
He invented the thermometer -
James Lind
He found out oranges and lemons were the cure for scurvy -
Edward Jenner
He created the smallpox vaccine -
Average life span
Between 30 and 40 years -
Period: to
19th century
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Blood transfusion
About 4 ounces of blood from someone’s arm was successfully transfused into another individual -
Elizabeth Blackwell
She was the first woman in America do be awarded a medical degree -
Florence Nightingale
She was the founder of modern nursing -
American Red Cross
Provides emergency assistance, and disaster relief -
Wilhelm Roentgen
He discovered x-rays -
Average lifespan
Around 50 -
Period: to
20th century
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Sir Alexander Fleming
He discovered penicillin -
Open heart surgery
Claude Beck did the first ever open heart surgery -
Transplants
Lung transplant, liver transplant, and skin transplant -
Cat scan
It can detect diseases in your colon, and internal organs -
Test tube baby
It is when a egg that was fertilized outside of a woman’s body and then put back into a women’s body when fully developed -
Average life span
76.9
