history of medicine timeline

By lindynnsmith
  • 10,000 BCE

    primitive times / the stone age

    primitive times / the stone age
    • early humans lived in caves or simple huts, tepees, and hunted for everything
    • they used stone, and bones as tools to hunt for their food.
    • they were the first to leave behind art
    • they would mix bone meal, charcoal into water, and then add in minerals, tree sap, animals, and blood
    • they ate woolly mammoth, deer, and bison by creating fire and cooking them.
    • the end of the primitive times also ended the last ice age, which then led to extinction of larger mammals.
  • 3000 BCE

    ancient Egyptians

    ancient Egyptians
    • physicians were priests
    • leeches were used as medical treatment
    • no one lived past 20-30 years
    • they practiced medicine with highly professional methods
    • advanced knowledge of the body, and how to preform surgery
    • they were also good at diagnosing cancer and other things such as diabetes as well
    • they didn't have a very good contrast between magic and medicine
    • they thought that a persons well being was a result of who well they knew they universe.
  • 1200 BCE

    ancient greek medicine

    ancient greek medicine
    • first to observe the human body and the effects of disease.
    • the believed that healing came from the gods.
    • the amount of medical acre you got was dependent on the amount of wealth that you had.
    • the god Aesculapius was considered a "dispenser" of healing.
    • they really didn't have any actual medicine they mostly used the spirit's to heal them,
    • diet and hygiene and exercise as supposedly a way to cure disease.
  • 753 BCE

    ancient roman medicine

    ancient roman medicine
    -first to organised medical care (provided for solders with injuries)
    - first public health and sanitation systems by building g sewers and aqueducts.
    - extracted juices from plants, crushed herbs and powders spices.
    - were most known for natural substances.
    - also known for the first surgeries. most were not successful.
    - doctors today learn from doctors back then with their surgical doings.
  • 400

    dark ages AD 400- AD 800

    dark ages AD 400- AD 800
    • saved the soul and the study of medicine
    • prayer and divine intentions were used to treat illness and disease
    • monks and priests provided care for many of the sick people.
    • average life span for people living in the dark ages was 20-30 years.
    • medications were mostly herbal mixtures
  • 800

    middle ages

    middle ages
    • bubonic plague wiped out more than half the population
    • average life span was 20-35 years.
    • medical universitys were just now being built.
  • 1350

    renaissance

    renaissance
    • rebirth of science of medicine
    • first anatomy book was published
    • average life span was 30-40 years
    • still none knew what the major cause for disease was.

  • 20th century

    20th century
    • ABO blood groups were discovered
    • new machines were developed
    • structure of DNA discovered and research in gene therapy started
    • Kidney dialysis machine
    • antibiotics developed to help fight off infections

  • 20th century continued

    20th century continued
    • first bone marrow transplant
    • test tube babies
    • organ transplants liver heart kidney

  • 20-21st century

    20-21st century
    • smoke free laws
    • advanced HIV medicine
    • stem cell research
    • laraposcopic surgurey