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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for the sick
Blood letting
Exorcism
Prayer time and division -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis Heart medicine
Quinine controls fevers
Belladonna relive muscle spasm
Morphine pain medication -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records identify certain diseases
Who are physicians? priests
How did they heal? Medicines -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture. It’s a way to treat a variety of illnesses -
Period: 1350 BCE to 1650 BCE
Renaissance
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900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Herbal therapies
not allowed to dissect the bodies
The father of medicine -
100 BCE
Ancient Roman’s
learned from Greeks, water ways
First to organize medical care
Physicians kept a room in there home for the ill -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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Period: 400 to 800
Middle age
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500
Stoped the study of medicine why?
Medicine was only practiced in convents and monasteries. -
700
How do they treat disease?
Prayer -
1100
Epidemics
Killed 60 million people -
1450
Rebirth
Built for research
Study of the body
Allow greater knowledge -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo de Vinci
Studied anatomy of body -
1550
Gabriele fallopius
Fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
Eustachian tube -
William Harvey
Circulation of blood -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
Microscope -
Apothecaries
Trade in drugs -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin franklin
Bifocals -
Medical students learning
Elizabeth Blackwell -
Joseph Priestley
Element oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Smallpox -
Rene laennec
Stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Florence nightingale
School of nursing -
Ignaz semmelweis
Puerperal fever -
Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology -
Joseph lister
Antiseptic -
Ernst von bergmann
Asepsis -
Robert Koch
Disease cause organisms -
Paul ehrlich
606 experiments -
Wilhelm roentgen
X-rays -
Anesthesia
Relieve pain of surgery -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Penicillin -
Sigmund freud
Psychosomatic illness -
Gerhard domagk
Sulfanilamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Polio -
Albert Sabin
live polio virus -
Francis crick and James Watson
DNA structure -
Christian Barnard
Heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Pioneer -
5 advances
Organ transplant
Reattach severed body parts
Noninvasive techniques
Caring for unborn fetuses
Computers -
Period: to
21st century