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100
Ancient Romas
Sanitation systems
-brought clean water through aqueducts(waterways)
-sewers to carry waste
-public baths with filtering systems
Organize medical care
-medical equipment and physicians sent with army
Hospital development
-public buildings for the care of the sick were established -
500
Stopped the study of medicine, why?
-Roman empire was conquered by Huns(nomads from the north). Medicine was only practiced convents and monasteries. Church believed life and death was in gods hands. The monks and priest had no interest on how the body worked. -
700
How do they treat a disease?
-Treatment was prayer
-Medication consisted of herbal mixtures -
Period: 800 to 400
Dark age
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900
Ancient Greeks
Illness cause nature vs.
-housed in scared temples of healing
-eliminate superstition
Dissection
-ancient times, religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected.
Hippocrates
-wrote standard off ethics -
1100
Epidemics
-caused million of deaths
-uncontrolled diseases: smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. -
Period: 1400 to 800
Middle age
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1450
Rebirth
Universities
-was for research
Dissection
-the acceptance of dissection for the study
Books
-more access to knowledge from research -
1515
Leonardo da Vinci
-studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
-discovered Fallopian tubes of female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
-discovered tube leading to from ear to throat -
William Harvey
-knowledge to understand physiology
Understood circulation of blood and pumping of the heart -
Period: to 1350
Renaissance
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Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
-invented microscope
-established there is life smaller then we can see -
Apothecaries
-engaged in flourishing trade in drugs and spices in the east -
Period: to 1501
16th and 17th centuries
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Benjamin Franklin
-bifocals
-found colds can be passed person to person -
Medical students learning
- not only in classrooms but also by observed patients at bedside. -dissected the body and were able to see the disease process. -wider range of students studying medicine
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Joseph Priestley
-discovered element oxygen ‘
Observed plants that refresh air after lost oxygen and making it usable for respiration. -
Edward Jenner
-discovered method of vaccination for smallpox.
-saved millions of lives -
Rene Leannec
-invented the stethoscope
-increased ability to hear the heart and lungs
-doctors were able to tell if the disease was present -
Period: to
18th century
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Florence nightingale
-female
-graduates from this school raised standards of nursing, nursing became a respectable profession. -
Ignaz Semmelweis
-identified the cause of childbed fever
-large amount of women died after birth -
Louis Pasteur
-father of microbiology
-discovered tiny microorganisms
-heating milk prevented bacteria. -
Dmitri Ivanovski
-Discovered that some diseases are caused by tiny microorganisms
-called viruses
-Rabies, measles, influenza, chicken pox, German measles, herpes zoster, mumps. -
Joseph lister
-pastures discovery microorganism cause infection
-first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery. -
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture
-treat illnesses and diseases with stone tools -
Ernst von bergamann
-developed asepsis -
Robert Koch
-diseases causing organisms
-introduced the important of sanitation in preventing spread of disease. -
Paul ehrlich
-discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms
-his treatment was good for killing of bacteria but not some microorganism -
Wilhelm Roentgen
-discovered x-rays in 1895
-allowed doctors to see in the body and see what’s wrong with the patient. -
Anesthesia
-nitrous oxide (for dental care)
-chloroform
-put patients in deep sleep to not feel pain. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
-Penicillin killed life threatening bacteria.
-once of the most important discoveries -
Sigmund Freud
-discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
-mind and body work together.
-basis of psychology. -
Gerhard Domagk
-discovered sulfonamide compounds
-first to begin effective in killing bacteria -
Jonas salk
-discovered that dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis
-paralyzed thousands of adults and children every year.
-attacked most active people -
Albert Sabin
-used a live polio virus vaccine
-immunize babies against dreaded disease -
Francis crick and James Easton
-discovered the molecular structure of DNA
-explained on how DNA replicates
-set stage for rapid advances in molecular biology -
Christian Barnard
-performed first successful heart transplant in 1968 -
Ben Carson
-pioneer in separating Siamese twins and performing hemispherectomies, survives on the brain to stop seizures -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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5 advancements
- Using technology- us using technology had made transporting and keeping track of old data a lot easier to access and travel
- Online appointments, has helped if you live farther away from a place and you don’t need to use so much gas. .MRI’s have helped doctors see inside the brain way more easier and have helped with being able to tell the cure.
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5 advancements
- Artificial intelligence- detecting diseases earlier and confirming an accurate diagnosis quicker. 5.3D printing- can be used to create implants and even joints to be used during surgery. Allows crazy levels of comfort and mobility.
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Ancient Egyptians
Health records
-accurate health records
-gods ton heal
Physicians
-priests
-healed splinting fractures and bloodletting with leeches
Heal
-drain blood
-if not can can threaten the healing of tissue. -
Period: to 399
Ancient times
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Medicines used today
Digitalis
-Treat heart conditions
Quinine
-controls fever, relieves muscle spasms, and helps prevent malaria.
belladonna and Atropine
-made from poisonous nightshade
-relieve muscle spams and gastrointestinal pain
Morphine
-from opium
-treats severe pain
-addicting and lastly resort -
Treatments for the sick
Blood letting
Exorcism
Prayer -
Disease caused by
Evil spirits -
Period: to
Early beginnings