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3000 BCE
Primitive Times
- Believed that illnesses were caused by evil spirits/demos
- Herbs and plants were used as medication
- Trepanation- removing a piece of bone of the skull LIfe Span - 20 Years
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410 BCE
Ancient Romans
- First to provide medical care
- First public health sanitation systems
- Body was regulated by 4 body humors - Blood, Phlegm, Black bile, and Yellow bile Life Span - 25-35 Years
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300 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
- Priests were physicians
- Egyptians recorded the first Health records
- Leeches were used in medical procedures Life Span- 20-30 years
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200 BCE
Ancient Chinese
- Needed to treat the whole body
- Therapies like acupuncture were used Life Span - 20-30 years
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200 BCE
Ancient Greeks
- Hippocrates (Father of Medicine)
- Believes illness was a result of natural cause
- Used therapies (herbal, massage, etc.)
- Hygiene & exercise (ways to prevent disease)
Life Span - 25-35 years
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800
Dark Ages
- Saving the soul and studying medicine was prohibited
- Prayer was used to treat illness
- Herbal mixtures were used as medicine Life Span -20-30 years
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1400
MIddle Ages
- Arabs required physicians to pass examination to become medical workers
- Bubonic plague killed 75% of the population in Europe and Asia
- Medical Universities were established Life Span - 20-35 years
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Period: 1500 to
16th and 17th Century
1500´s
- Modern surgery established the use of ligatures to stop bleeding
1600´s
-early pharmacists prescribed medicine
1670
- invention of the microscope
Life Span- 35-40 years -
Renaissance
- Rebirth of Science of Medication -Invention of Printing Press
- First anatomy book was published by Andreas Vesalius Life Spam - 30-40
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18th Century
- first mercury thermometer was invented
- Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals
- Tube feeding was introduced
- Small Pox vaccine discovered Life Span - 40-50
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19th Century
- X-Ray machine Developed
- First Open Heart Surgery
- Stethoscope was Invented
- Training for Nurses Life Span - 40-60
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20th Century
- ABO blood groups discovered
- Insulin Discovered
- Antibiotics
- Kidney Dialysis Machine
- Heart lung machine
- Structure of DNA was discovered
- First Bone Marrow Transplant
- Targeted Cancer Therapies -Smoke Free Laws
- HIV medication advanced
- Test Tube Babies
- Organ Transplants
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21st Century
- First artificial heart
- Face transplants
- Vaccines