History Timeline- Sacoya Cave

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  • 4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    -Illness and diseases were caused by evil spirits and demons

    -Tribal witch doctors treated illness with ceremonies,

    -Herbs and plants were used as morphine,
    -Trepanation or trephining (removing a piece of the skull),
    -Average life span was 20 years
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    -Physicians were priests
    -Bloodletting or leeches used as medical treatment
    -Average life span was 20-30 years
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    -Believed in the need to treat the whole body by curing the spirit and nourishing the body
    - Began to search for medical reasons for illness
    -Average life span was 20-30 years
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    • Hippocrates( father of medicine) and other physicians
    • First to observe the human body and the effects of the disease -Believed illness is the result of natural causes -Used therapies such as massage, art therapy, and herbal treatment -Stressed diet, hygiene and exercise as ways to prevent disease -Average life span was 25-35 years
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    -First to organize medical care by providing care for injured soldiers
    -Later hospitals were religious and charitable institutions in monasteries and convents
    -First public health and sanitation systems by building sewers and aqueducts
    -Galen established belief that the body was regulated by four body humors (blood,phlegm,black bile, and yellow bile
    -Life span was 25-35 years
  • 400

    Dark Ages

    -Emphasis on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited
    -Prayer and divine intervention were used to treat illness and disease
    -Monks and priests provide custodial care for sick people
    -Medications were mainly herbal mixtures
    -Average life span was 20-30 years
  • 800

    Middle Ages

    1100- Arabs began requiring physicians pass examinations and obtain licenses
    1346-1353- Bubonic plague killed 75% of population in Europe and Asia
    1220-1255- Medical Universities were established
    -Average lifespan was 20-35 years
  • 1350

    Renaissance

    -Rebirth of Science of Medicine
    1440- Invention of printing press allowed medical knowledge to be shared
    1543- First anatomy book was published by Andreas Vesalius(1514-1564)
    -Average Life Span 30-40 years

  • 16th and 17th Centuries

    1500s- Ambroise Pare Known as the father of medicine established use of ligatures to stop bleeding
    1600s- Apothecaries made, prescribed, and sold medications
    1670- invention of the microscope
    -Average life span was 35-45 years

  • 18th century

    1714-Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) created the first mercury thermometer
    1760- Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals
    1778- John Hunter established scientific surgical procedures and introduced tube feeding
    1798-smallpox vaccine discovered
    -Average life span was 40-50 years

  • 19th century

    1895- X-ray machine developed
    1893 First open heart surgery
    1816 invention of the stethoscope
    1860- formal training for nurses began
    Average Life span was 40-60 years

  • 20th century

    1901- ABO blood groups discovered
    1922-Insulin discovered and used to treat diabetes
    1943 - Kidney dialysis machine developed
    1953- heart lung machine
    1953- Structure of DNA discovered and research in gene therapy begins

  • 20th century

    1956- First bone marrow transplant
    1978- test tube babies
    Organ Transplants
    1960- kidneys
    1963- liver
    1967- heart
    1982- artificial heart

  • 20-21 century

    1910- laparoscopic surgery
    1970- targeted cancer therapies
    1990 smoke free laws
    1996 advances in HIV medication
    1999- rapid advances in stem cell research

  • 21 century

    2001- the first totally implantable artificial heart was placed in patient in Louisville Kentucky
    2003- Human genome project completed
    2005- face transplants
    2006- HPV
    2015-Malaria
    2015- Ebola