History Of Medicine-Elijah Lee

By elijahL08
  • 4000 BCE

    primitive

    primitive
    -Diseases and illnesses were thought to be caused by evil spirits and were a punishment from god
    -To cure disease they thought that they needed to do ceremonies
    -They used herbs as medicine to help
    -The first surgery was performed in the form of trepanation where they removed a piece of bone from the skull
    -The average lifespan was 20 years
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    Ancient Egypt
    -Physicians were priests
    -Health records began to be recorded
    -Bloodletting or leeches were used as medical treatments
    -Ancient Egyptians had an advanced knowledge of the anatomy of humans
    -Lifespan between 20 and 30
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient China

    Ancient China
    -Believed in treating the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body
    -Used medicine mainly based on herbs
    -used therapies such as acupuncture and acupressure
    -In this time period they began to search for medical reasons for illness
    -Lifespan between 20 and 30
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greece

    Ancient Greece
    -Hippocrates the Father of Medicine
    -Observed the human and the effect of diseases that lead to modern medical science
    -Believed illnesses were caused by natural causes
    -used therapy such as massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment
    -Believed that diet, hygiene, and exercise can help prevent diseases
  • 753 BCE

    ancient rome

    ancient rome
    -First to organize medical care by giving medical care to soldiers
    -Hospitals were religious and charitable institutions in monasteries
    - Built the first public health and sanitation systems by building sewers and aqueducts
    -Galen believed that the body by four humors blood, yellow bile, mucus, black bile
  • 400

    dark ages

    dark ages
    -Emphasized on saving the soul
    -The study of medicine was prohibited
    - Monks and priests provided custodial care to the sick
    -Medicine was herbal mixtures
    -disease blamed on circumstance
    -lifespan 20 to 30
  • 800

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    -A renewed interest in medical practices
    -In 1110 Arabs began to require people to pass a physician examination to get a license
    -In 1220 medical universities were established
    -From 1346 to 1353 the Bubonic plague killed 75% of European and Asian population
    -Major diseases included smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, typhoid, the plaque, and malaria
  • 1350

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance
    -The rebirth of science and medicine or science of medicine
    -Body dissection increased the knowledge and understanding of our anatomy and physiology
    -In 1440 with the invention of the printing press news in science and medicine was able to spread
    -In 1543 the first anatomy book was published by Andreas Vesalius
    The cause of diseases is still a mystery
    -Lifespan from 30 to 40 years
  • 1500

    16th and 17th centuries

    16th and 17th centuries
    -Knowledge of the human anatomy increased greatly
    -In the 1500's Ambroise Pare known as the father of modern surgeries established the use of ligatures to stop bleeding
    -1600's Apothecaries/ early pharmacists mad
    -In 1670 the invention of the microscope allowed us to see disease-causing organisms
    -Cause of disease still unknown
    -Lifespan 35 to 45 years

  • 18th century

    18th century
    -1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit created the mercury thermometer
    -1760 Ben Franklin created bifocals
    - 1778 John Hunter established scientific surgery procedures and made tube feeding
    -1798 smallpox vaccine was made
    -Life 40 to 50

  • 19th Century

    19th Century
    -discovery of microorganisms, anesthesia, and vaccinations
    -1895 x-ray machine made
    -1893 was the first open-heart surgery
    -1816 Invention of stethoscope
    -1860 nurse formal training began
    -Women participate in medicine
    -Lifespan 40 to 60

  • 1901

    ABO blood types discovered

  • 1910

    Laparoscopic

  • 20th century vaccines

    Diptheria 1921
    Tuberculosis 1925
    Pertussis 1927
    Typhus 1937
    Influenza 1945
    Oral Polio 1962
    Measles 1963
    Mumps 1967
    Rubella 1970
    Chicken Pox 1974
    Streptococcus Pneumonia 1977
    Meningitis 1978
    Hepatitis B 1981
    Hepatitis A 1992
    Lyme Disease 1998
    Rotavirus 1998

  • 1922

    Insulin discovered to treat diabetes

  • 1928

    antibiotics developed to fight infections

  • 1943 and 1953

    1943 kidney Dialysis Machine
    1953 Heart Dialysis Machine

  • 1953

    structure of DNA discovered

  • 1956 and 1978

    1956 The first bone marrow transplant
    1978 Test tube babies

  • Organ Transplant

    1960 Kidney
    1963 Liver
    1967 Heart
    1982 Artificial Heart

  • 1970's

    Targeted Cancer Therapies- blocked cells that grew tumors

  • 1990

    Smoke-Free Laws which decreased 2nd hand smoking

  • 1996

    Advances in HIV Medication turned a death sentence into a normal lifespan

  • 1999

    Rapid Advances in Stem Cell Research

  • 2001

    The first totally implantable artificial heart was placed in a patient in Louisville Kentucky

  • 2003

    Human Genome Project Completed

  • 2005

    First Face transplant

  • Vaccines

    2006 HPV
    2015 Malaria
    2015 Ebola