History of Medicine- Hallie Doman

By hallie_doman
  • 4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    people believed that diseases were caused as a punishment from the gods and used herbs and plants or removal of a piece of bone from the skull called Trepidation
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Priests were physicians at that time and would use leeches as a medical treatment.
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    The Chinese began using acupuncture and believed they had to treat the whole body in order to cure the spirit. They finally began to search for medical reasons for an illness.
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    Hippocrates and other physicians observed that an illness was a result of a natural cause and began explaining that diet, personal hygiene, and exercise can prevent it.
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    The Romans were the first to provide care for injured soldiers followed by the belief that the human body was regulated by four humors which included blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
  • 400

    Dark ages

    Saving the the soul and the study of medicine was prohibited and only priests and monks could give care to others.
  • 800

    Middle Ages

    Arabs began requiring physicians to pass exams in order to get their medical license followed by the first medical universities being established. However, the Bubonic Plague killed 75% of the people in Asia and Europe along with diseases such as smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, and malaria
  • 1350

    Renaissance

    Science and Medicine were reborn followed by the printing press along with the first anatomy book being published but the cause of disease was still a mystery.
  • 1500

    16th and 17th Centuries

    1500’s: Ambroise Pare was a French surgeon established use of ligatures to stop bleeding
    1600’s: medications were being made, prescribed, and sold
    1670: Invention of the microscope allowed physicians to study organisms closer

  • 18th Century

    The first thermometer was created by Gabriel Fahrenheit, Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals, John Hunter established scientific surgical procedures and introduced tube feeding and in 1798 the Smallpox vaccine discovered

  • 19th Century

    X-Ray machine, first open heart surgery, invention of the stethoscope, formal training for nurses

  • 20th Century

    ABO blood groups were discovered, Insulin and Antibiotics, Kidney dialisis machine, Heart Lung machine, DNA structure, Bone Marrow Transplant, Organ Transplants

  • 20th-21st Century

    Laparoscopic surgery, targeted cancer therapies, smoke free laws, HIV medication, STEM cell research, first artificial heart, human genome project, face transplants