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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Primitive Time
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3900 BCE
Important Medicines still used today
Back then many people used plants and herbs as medicine. Now days many people are still using the same herbs. One example is called morphine which is a poppy plant used to treat pain. -
3800 BCE
Believed disease was caused by
Many people thought that disease and illnesses were caused by supernatural spirts and demons. -
3700 BCE
Average life span
The average life span back then was 20 years old. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
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2900 BCE
How do they heal?
When a disease occurred they would call upon the gods to heal them -
2800 BCE
Who are physicians? Who was the 1st?
Physicians were persist who studied medicine and surgery in temple medical schools. The first ever physician was Imhotep. -
2700 BCE
Average life span
As time went on the average life spam turned into 20 to 30 years. -
Period: 1700 BCE to 220
Ancient Chinese
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1600 BCE
Dissection (Beliefs and results)
The religious prohibitions against dissection resulted in inadequate knowledge of the human body. -
1500 BCE
Importance of the WHOLE body
They believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirt and nourishing the body. -
1400 BCE
Average life span
The average life span now is 20-30 years old. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
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Period: 753 BCE to 410
Ancient Romans
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460 BCE
Hippocrates
Hippocrates are called the father of medicine. They developed an organized method to observe the human body. They also recorded signs and symptoms of many diseases. They created a high standard of ethics, the Oath of Hippocrates, used by physicians today. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
Aristotle dissected animals and is called the founder of comparative anatomy. -
370 BCE
Average life span
By this time the average life span was 25 to 35 years. -
200 BCE
Sanitation system
They created aqueducts to carry clean water to the cities. They built sewers to carry waste materials away from the cities. They used filtering systems in public baths to prevent disease and they drained marshes to reduce the incidence of malaria. -
100 BCE
Hospitals
Early hospitals where formed when physicians cared for ill people in rooms in their houses. Later hospitals were religious and charitable institutions housed in monasteries and convents. -
300
Average life span
The average life span for this time is still 25-35 years. -
400
Prohibited study of medicine, why?
The study of medicine was prohibited because Emphasis was placed on saving the soul. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
How do they treat disease?
Prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illnesses and diseases. -
600
Average life span?
The average life span went down to 20-30 years. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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850
Medical Universities
Physicians began to obtain knowledge at medical universities in the 9th centuries. -
900
Pandemic
A pandemic that was worldwide epidemic called the bubonic plague killed 3/4 of the population of Europe and Asia. -
910
Rhazes
Rhazes was an Arab physician became know as the Arab Hippocrates. He based diagnoses on observations of the signs and symptoms of disease. He developed criteria for distinguishing between smallpox and measles in AD 910. He suggested that blood was the cause of many infectious diseases. He also began the use of animal gut for suture material. -
1000
Average life span
The average life span is 20 to 35 years. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1401
Rebirth
During this the science of medicine was rebirthed. -
1425
Dissection
Dissection of the body began to allow a better understanding of anatomy and physiology. -
1450
Artists
Artists Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci used dissection in order to draw the human body more realistically. -
1475
Average life span
The average life span was 30 to 40 years. -
1501
Cause of Disease
Causes of diseases were still not know and many people dies from infections and puerperal (childbirth) fever. -
Period: 1501 to
16th Century
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1510
Father of Modern surgery
Ambroise pare, a French surgeon was known as Father of Modern surgery. He established use of ligatures to binged arteries and stop bleeding. He eliminated use of boiling oil to cauterize wounds. He also improved treatment of fractures and promoted use of artificial limbs. -
1523
Gabriel Fallopius
He identified the Fallopian tubes in the female. He also described the tympanic membrane in the ear. -
Average life span
The average life span was 35 to 45 years. -
Period: to
17th Century
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William Harvey
William Harvey described the circulation of blood to and from the heart in 1628. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope in 1666. -
Apothecaries
Apothecaries made, prescribed, and sold medications. -
Average life span
The average life span was 35 to 45 years. -
Period: to
18th Century
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first mercury thermometer in 1714 -
James Lind
James Lind prescribed lime juice containing vitamin C to prevent scurvy in 1795. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner developed a vaccination for smallpox in 1796. -
Average life span
The average life span was 40 to 50 years. -
Period: to
19th Century
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Blood Transfusion
The first successful blood transfusion was performed of humans in 1818 by James Blundell. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell become the first female physician in the United States. -
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing. She established efficient and sanitary nursing units during the Crimean war in 1854. She opened the nightingale school and house for nurses at St. Thomas’ hospital in London in 1860. She also began the professional education of nurses. -
American Red Cross
The international Red Cross was founded in 1863. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Wilhelm Roentgen discovered roentgenograms (x-rays) in 1895. -
Average life span
The average life span was 40 to 60 years. -
Period: to
20th Century
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. -
Open Heart Surgery
The first heart-lung machine was used for open-heart surgery in 1953. -
Transplant
The first successful kidney transplant in humans was performed by Joseph Murray in 1954. The liver transplant was performed by Thomas Starzl in 1963. The first lung transplant was performed by James Hardy. -
CAT scan
CAT Scan was developed in 1975. -
Test tube baby
The first “test tube” baby Louise Brown, was born in England in 1978. -
Average life span
The average life span was 60 to 70 years.
