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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused by
Evil Spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Trephining- Tribal doctors get rid of the evil spirits -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis- Heart medicine
Quinine- Fever, muscle spasms, and prevents malaria
Belladonna and atropine- Relive muscle spasms
Morphine- Treating serve pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
They were the earliest people to keep accurate health records. The priests acted as physicians. They called upon the gods to heal them. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
First to use primitive acupuncture therapy -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
First to discover diseases and that they are natural and not spiritual. Religious customs did not allow dissection to occur. Hippocrates is the father of medicine. -
100
Ancient Romans
Brought clean water into the city’s using aqueducts. First to organize medical care. First people to keep a room for sick people. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine
They believed that death was in Gods hands. -
700
Treating diseases
The primary treatment was prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Bubonic plague, Smallpox, Diphtheria, Syphilis, Tuberculosis killed millions of people. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
The building of universities and medical schools for research. Acceptance of dissection for study. The development of the printing press allowing greater access to knowledge from research. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy -
1563
Barolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Was able to understand the circulation of blood and the pumping heart. -
Antonio von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope -
Apothecaries
Early pharmacies started -
Period: to
18th Century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals and that colds can be passed from person to person -
Medical students learning
Required a new way of teaching, when a patient died they dissected the body and observed the disease process. . -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Florence Nighingale
Founder of modern nursing -
Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever -
Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology, discovered tiny microorganisms -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Some diseases are caused my microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope -
Joseph Lister
Became the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery. -
Ernst con Bergmann
Developed asepsis -
Robert Koch
Discovered many disease-causing organisms -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease-causing microorganisms -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-ray -
Anesthesia
Allowed doctors to preform surgery and the patient would not feel a thing -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found penicillin killed live-threatening bacteria -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered conscious and unconscious parts of the mind -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead polio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used live polio virus vaccine. Helps immunize babies -
Christian barnard
Preformed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Pioneer in separating Siamese twins and preforming hemispherectomies surgeries on the brain to stop seizures. -
Francis Crick and Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA -
Period: to
21st century
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5 advancements in medicine
- Gene Sequencing
- Telehealth and mobile heath
- 3D printing of body parts
- Controlling Heart Disease
- Therapy in Cancer Treatment