History of Medicine

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  • 100,000 BCE

    Ancient Times

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

    Egyptians

    Egyptians
    •Earliest to keep accurate historical records
  • 300 BCE

    Jewish Medicine

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

    Greek Medicine

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

    Roman Medicine

    Roman Medicine
    •Learned from Greeks and developed sanitation system
    •First to organize medical care
  • 600

    Dark Ages

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

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    •Crusaders spread disease
  • 1500

    Renaissance Medicine

    Renaissance Medicine
    •Universities and medical schools for research
  • 1510

    16th Century

    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