History of Medicine

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  • Ancient Times
    100,000 BCE

    Ancient Times

    •Humans had to protect themselves against predators
    •Herbs and plants used as medicine
  • Egyptians
    1000 BCE

    Egyptians

    •Earliest to keep accurate historical records
  • Jewish Medicine
    300 BCE

    Jewish Medicine

    •Avoided medical practice
    •Concentrated on health rules of food, cleanliness, and quarantine
  • Greek Medicine
    300 BCE

    Greek Medicine

    •First to study cause of disease
    •Aesculapius: staff and serpent symbols of medical
  • Roman Medicine
    100 BCE

    Roman Medicine

    •Learned from Greeks and developed sanitation system
    •First to organize medical care
  • Dark Ages
    600

    Dark Ages

    •Terrible epidemics
    •Bubonic plague (Black Death)
  • Middle Ages
    1000

    Middle Ages

    •Crusaders spread disease
  • Renaissance Medicine
    1500

    Renaissance Medicine

    •Universities and medical schools for research
  • 16th Century
    1510

    16th Century

    •Leonardo da Vinci: anatomy of body
  • 17th Century

    17th Century

    •William Harvey: circulation of blood
  • 18th Century

    18th Century

    •Edward Jenner: smallpox vaccination
  • 19th Century

    19th Century

    •Louis Pasteur: discovered that microorganisms cause disease (germ theory of communicable disease)
  • 1900-1945

    1900-1945

    •Acute infectious disease (Diphtheria,TB, rheumatic fever)
  • 20th Century

    20th Century

    •Alexander Fleming: discovered penicillin
  • 1945-1975

    1945-1975

    • Immunization common, antibiotic cure, safer surgeries, transplants, increase lifespan, chronic degenerative diseases, new health hazards (obesity, neuroses, lung cancer,hypertension), disintegrating families, greatly increasing medical costs
  • 1975-Present

    1975-Present

    • Artificial parts, bio-engineering, cloning, bio-ethical issues, AIDs, drug-resistance organisms, laser surgeries, laparoscopic surgeries, managed healthcare