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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by
Super natural spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Ceremonies were preformed as a way to exorcise spirts from people -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
digitalis used for the heart
Quinine used for fever
Belladonna and Astro pin are used for GI pain
Morphine is for pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Accident Egyptians
The Ancient Egyptians kept records that were the most accurate.
The physicians were the priests.
They healed by using medicines, leeches, and the works of splinting fractures -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Acupuncture was used by the ancient Chinese first while they used stone utensils to complete these therapies. -
990 BCE
Ancient Greeks
The ancient Greeks realized that becoming sick was caused by naturals over what others thought was spiritual.
Dissection was not prohibited during these times based on religion beliefs so they would observe by the outside.
Hippocrates wrote “Oath of Hippocrates” which is a big foundation of writing observations for diseases and a big part of how we deal with todays medical diseases. -
100
Ancient Romans
The first people to start organization for medical care was in fact the Ancient Romans.
Ancient Roman Physicians had kept one separate room in their homes to hold the ill, nowadays we have hospitals with multiple rooms to keep ill patients separated from one another typically.
The Death Mask was worn by the Ancient Roman Physicians. The Death Masks “beak” was needed to be filled with spices as the romans believed this is what kept them safe from further spread of illnesses. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine, why?
Medicine studies were stopped for a long time after the Romans were taken over by the Huns. -
700
How do they treat disease?
Beliefs changed majorly once the Romans were over thrown by the Huns. In this case they did not believe in medicine but to only pray that whatever they are enduring would go away. The only type of “medication” would have been herbal concoctions. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
In the Middle Ages epidemics spreading became unfortunately more popular amongst people due to absence in taking medication to treat illnesses, In which many died. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
University’s in which would continue studies for medical sciences were built.
Dissection became allowed to help understand and further studies.
Books and writing developments were furthered which helps with education in health sciences. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries.
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo took the body and made research upon it by creating an illustration of it to help with the push of education in medical science. -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
The Fallopian Tubes inside of a woman were founded by Gabrielle Fallopius. -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
The Eustachian Tube going from your ear and leading down toward your throat was founded by Bartolommeo Eustachio. -
William Harvey
How your heart pumps and circulates the blood to keep you alive was discovered by William Harvey. -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
The microscope was a huge discovery from Antonie von Leeuwenhoek. His discovery led to realizing there are things beyond what the human can see. -
Apothecaries
Apothecaries finally started up during this time period. During this time trade became popular as they traded with the East. -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin franklin founded that even simple sicknesses could be transferred between many people. -
Medical Students Learning
Students began to be allowed more opportunities to learn about medical sciences. They were allowed to use a deceased patients bodys to understand the way the body holds illnesses. Not only were they hands on but they also were in labs and in held discussions to teach the way of medical sciences. -
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley made an understanding of what Oxygen truly is and how it is to be renewed in the respiration process. -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner was the man who founded the vaccine for small pox which was a deadly disease very popular when there wasn’t beliefs in medicine. -
Rene Laennec
Rene Laennec was the first person to create the stethoscope. -
Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
In todays society sanitation is a big role and that has thanks to Ignaz Semmelweis. He had discovered that birth giving women were dying due to the unsanitary hands of physicians but those who did not die were in care of midwives who were clean. -
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale changed the based standards for our society today by her determination to be in nursing despite the ridiculement. Her reputation left behind a life changing movement for other women to be allowed into the medical sciences field and work along men as equals. -
Louis Pasteur
Microorganisms were founded by Louis Pasteur and were the root of how illness started. Louis Pasteur was also responsible for the rabies vaccination, and pasteurization. -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Dmitri Ivanovski found that microorganisms that aren’t visible by a human but instead a electron microscope are also a cause for some illnesses such as rabies or chicken pox. -
Joseph Lister
The first person to use antiseptic for a surgery which is to prevent germs that can cause harm, was Joseph Lister. -
Ernst von Bergmann
Asepsis was made upon by Ernst von Bergmann with his education of what created illness due to other researchers. -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch really started to imply why sanitation was a big role and needed to be done. He had also founded a lot of the harmful bacteria organisms. -
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich found that medicine on illnesses had some impact but some times didn’t depending on the microorganisms. He also had discovered the treatment for syphilis after many trial and errors. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
X-rays were finally founded by Wilhelm Roentgen. -
Anesthesia
Anesthesia was not around for a long time and its alternative was to use unruly ways to leave a patient un able to comprehend the pain such as choking or alcohol. The drugs that make up what goes into anesthesia was later discovered and used to safely do procedures. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
The discovery of how penicillin works and the way it can get rid of harmful bacteria was founded by Sir Alexander Fleming. -
Sigmund Freud
The way the body and mind communicate with one another and the unconsciousness and consciousness parts in your mind is what Sigmund Freud had revealed with his studies. -
Gerhard Domagk
The discovery of Sulfonamide compounds and how it kills germs for for harmful illnesses was the first the first thing effective thanks to Gerhard Domagk -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Saulk found the immunity of poliomyelitis which was a dead version virus to poliomyelitis. -
Albert Sabin
Although Jonas Salks immunization was effective, Albert Satin chose the opposite route and used a live virus of poliomyelitis to give immunity to the poliomyelitis disease. This became more effective than Jonas Salk’s ways and is still used in modern day. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
The way DNA is set up and explanation on how DNA works was founded by Francis Crick and James Watson. These two won a Nobel peace prize for their accomplishment. -
Christian Barnard
Christian Barnard successfully completed the first transplant of a heart. -
Ben Carson
Difficult tasks dealing with surgeries like a separation of twins or to stop seizures for a person by under going brain surgery are preformed by Ben Carson. -
Period: to
21st Century
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5 advancements
- Covid Vaccine created
- First approved Tubeless Insulin Pump
- Effective Single Dosage Breast Cancer Cure
- The first successful Face Transplant
- First ever printed heart in 3D containing actual tissues