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Period: 4000 BCE to
Early beginnings
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3100 BCE
Disease and illness caused
Illnesses and disease were caused by supernatural spirits.
They would have tribal doctors perform exorcisms to get rid of them. Digitalis used to treat heart failure and rhythm problems.
Quinine used to treat malaria, leg cramps and your nervous system.
Belladonna and atropine used to treat irritable bowel syndrome.
Morphine treats severe pain. -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399 BCE
Ancient times
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1900 BCE
Kept accurate health records
The Egyptians were the most accurate kept although records.
The physicians were priests.
They would use bloodletting with leaches attached as a method to drain out the sickness or disease.
Th ancient Chinese were the first to use acupuncture and they treated illness with stone tools. -
900 BCE
Message and herbal therapy
The Greeks would house people in sacred temples but soon learned about massage and herbal therapies that would work more.
Bodies were not allowed to be dissected at this time.
Hippocrates the father of medicine based his info on observance and would follow signs and symptoms of disease.
The Greeks brought clean water into their cities by using aqueducts to help cure some diseases that were caused by lack of sanitation. -
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Hospitals
The Egyptians were the first to organize their medical care and send doctors and their equipment during wars.
Hospitals started because doctors would hold people in their houses to take care of. -
Period: 400 to 800
The dark ages
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700
Stopped study of medicine
They stopped the study of medicine because the church believed death was in Gods hands.
To treat diseases they would would pray, and use herbal mixtures. -
Period: 800 to 1400
The middle age
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1100
Epidemics
During this time there was a epidemic that included diseases like bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria, syphilis, and tuberculosis. Alone the bubonic plague (the Black Death) killed 60 million people. -
Period: 1350 to
The renaissance
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1450
Rebirth of learning
They started building medical schools along with other university’s. They used s printing press to create books for research and were finally opened to dissecting bodies. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo is know for his art and many other things. He also recorded the anatomy of the human body. -
1550
Gabrielle fallopius
Gabriele is famous for finding the Fallopian tubes in woman anatomy. -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Bartolommeo discovered the Eustacian tube which is a tube that goes from the ear to the throat. -
William Harvey
William was a physician who was the first person to understand and describe the circulation of blood and how the heart pumps. -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
Antonine created the microscope and discovered bacteria causes tooth decay. -
Apothecaries
Apothecaries were earlier pharmacies and flourished in trading spices and drugs. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin franklin
Benjamin discovered bifocals and that colds could be passed from person to person. -
Medical students learning
They started going to labs, lectures and a serving patients. When patients died they would dissect them to understand the cause of death. -
Joseph Priestley
Joseph discovered the element of oxygen and also observed how plants refresh air. -
Edward Jenner
Edward discovered a method to vaccinate smallpox, Savin millions of lives. -
Rene Laennec
Rene invented the stethoscope which increase the ability to hear the lungs, and heart so doctors could determine if there was a disease. -
Period: to
19th and 20th century
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz discovered that women were dying after giving birth because physicians didn’t wash their hands or change their aprons. It lead to childbed fever. -
Florence nightingale
Florence implemented action plans to improve sanitary conditions by making people clean both hands and body, this reduced their hospitals death by two thirds during the Crimean war. -
Louis Pasteur
Louis was known as the father of microbiology because he discovered that there were tiny microorganisms everywhere. He proved that they caused disease. -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Dmitri discovered that filtered sap from sick plants could be used to transfer the infection to healthy plants. -
Jospeh lister
Joseph was the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery, which helped prevent infection. -
Ernst von bergmann
Ernst developed a method to keep areas germ free while surgery’s occur. -
Robert Koch
Robert developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens and stopped the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. -
Paul ehrlich
Paul created a way to explain the body’s immune systems responses and did work with chemo. He own the Nobel prize in physiology in 1908. -
Wilhelm roentgen
Wilhelm discovered x rays and took the very first picture of his wife’s hand. -
Anesthesia
Anesthesia wasn’t used until the 19th century. They would use herbs, hashish , and alcohol to relieve some pain but used methods like choking patients until they were knocked out so that they wouldn’t feel the pain. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Alexander discovered that penicillin killed serious bacterias. This discovery was one of the most important in the 29th century. -
Sigmund freud
Sigmund discovered that unconscious and conscious parts of the mind effects each other. This is how they would come to understand psychosomatic illness. -
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard discovered that an antibacterial dyes had actions against streptococcal and it helped agisnst the infections with humans. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas discovered a polio virus cause immunity to poliomyelitis which paralyzed thousands of people. -
Albert Sabin
He used a live vaccine which was for effective and is still used today. -
Francis crick and James Watson
They discovered the structure of DNA and explained how it replicates. -
Christian Barnard
Christian esa the first person to perform a heart transplant. -
Ben Carson
Ben was a physician who separated Siamese twins, performed hemispherectomies, and did surgeries to prevent seizures. -
Period: to
21st century
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Anti smoking laws
This ban stopped people from smoking in indoors like bars and casinos. -
3-d printed body parts
During this time doctors found living cells could be sprayed through printers. They used this to create body parts such as eyes, teeth, hearts, skin, ears, bones and ovarys. -
Hepatitis b cure
This disease destroys you nor liver and to cure this there is a antiviral drug that reduces the virus’s chance to replicate. -
Artificial organs
Some artificial organs are eyes, hearts, skin, bones, muscles, brains, and liver. -
HIV treatments
In 2006 three antiretroviral drags were made into one which would help prevent aids.