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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease Cause
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for Sick
Prayer, excorcisms, amputation, etc. -
3100 BCE
Medicine Used Today
Digitalis- for heart
Quinine- digestion
Belladonna and atropine- digestion
Morphine- pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
-earliest people to keep accurate records
-priests were physicians
-used medicine, splinting fractures, and bloodletting for healing -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
-first to use acupuncture therapy with stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
-first to study that illness could be caused naturally
-religious customs said dissection was wrong
-Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics, “Oath of Hippocrates”, took notes on symptoms of disease and had knowledge and observation of anatomy -
100
Ancient Romans
-learned from the Greeks and used aqueducts to have clean water, and used sewers to get rid of waste
-first to organize medical care by sending equipment to care for wounded soldiers
-kept houses for the ill, which is the beginning of hospitals which lead to physicians being paid by the government and a “public hospital”! -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Study of Medicine
-medicine stopped being studied when the Roman Empire was invaded by the Huns -
700
How Disease is Treated
-disease was treated with prayer again, sometimes medicine of herbal mixtures -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics caused millions of death
-bubonic plague (black death)
-smallpox
-diphtheria
-syphilis
-tuberculosis -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
Rebirth of learning, scientific progress was made
-university and schools for research
-acceptance of dissection for study
-development of many books