Liah Allen History Medicine timeline

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  • 4000 BCE

    Primitive Times

    Diseases and illness are a punishment from gods. Herbs and plants used as medicines.Trephination used to cure, Life span was 20 years old.
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient Egyptians

    Physicians were priests. First medical records. Leeches/bloodletting used as a treatment Life span 20-30 years.
  • 1700 BCE

    Ancient Chinese

    Nourishing the body and spirit was curing, recorded of medications, Used therapies such as acupuncture.Started research for the reason behind illness
  • 1200 BCE

    Ancient Greeks

    First to observe human body.This led to modern medical sciences. Illnesses natural cause. Used therapies such as massages, art therapies. Wanted to use hygiene, diets and exercise. Life span 25-35 years
  • 753 BCE

    Ancient Romans

    First to organize medical care, Hospitals were religious and charitable institutions, First public health and sanitation systems. Galen established belief that body was regulated by 4 things blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Life span 25-35 years
  • 400

    Dark Ages

    Saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited, prayer and divine help cure. Monks and priests provide custodial care for sick. Medications herbal mixtures, disease blamed on circumstance. Life span 20-30 years
  • 800

    Middle Ages

    Renewed interest in Greek and Romans research.1100: Arabs started requiring licenses. 1346-1353: Bubonic Plague killed 75% of population in Europe and Asia this also included smallpox, tuberculosis etc. 1220-1255: Medical Universities established.
    Life span 20-35 years.
  • 1350

    Renassiance

    Rebirth of science of medicine.Body Dissections led to increased learning of anatomy and physiology. 1440: Invention of printing press made knowledge of body spread. 1543: First Anatomy book. Disease causes still mystery. Life span 30-40 years

  • 16th and 17th Centuries

    Knowledge of body increased,1500:Ambroise Pare, French Surgeon, established use of liguartes to stop bleeding. 1600: Early pharmacies made and sold prescriptions.1670: invented microscopes helped with looking at disease causing organisms.
    Life span 35-45 years.

  • 18th Century

    1714:Gabriel Fahrenheit created first mercury thermometer.
    1760: Benjamin Franklin invented Bifocals
    1778: John hunter established tube feeding and surgical procedures
    1798:Smallpox vaccine discovered. Life span 40-50 years

  • 19th Century

    Rapid advancements due to the discoveries of microorganisms,anesthesia,and vaccinations 1895: X-Ray developed. 1893: The first open heart surgery. 1816:Invention of stethoscope. 1860: Formal training for nurses. Average life span 40-60 years.

  • 20th century

    1901:ABO blood groups discovered, white blood cells protect from disease, new medications
    1922: insulin for diabetes discovered.
    1928:Penicillin to fight infections.
    New Machines were developed
    1943: Kidney Dialysis Machine
    1953: Heart lung Machine
    surgical and diagnostic techniques developed to cure fatal injuries
    1953: Dna discovered to gene therapy

  • 20th century pt 2

    1956: First bone marrow transplant
    started embryonic stem cell research
    1978: Test tube babies
    Organ transplants 1960: Kidney 1963: Liver 1967: Heart 1982: Artificial heart
    Some vaccines
    1921: Diphtheria 1925: Tuberculosis 1927: Pertussis 1937: Typhus 1945: Influenza 1962: Oral Polio 1963: Measles 1967: Mumps Rubella; 1970 1974: Chicken Pox 1977: Streptococcus Pneumoniae 1978: Meningitis 1981: Hepatitis B 1992: Hepatitis A 1998: Lyme Disease and Rotavirus

  • 21st Century

    1910: Laparoscopic Surgery Minimal Invasive surgery
    1970's: Targeted Cancer Therapies
    1990: Smoke Free Laws
    1996: HIV advancements
    1999:Advances in Stem Cell research
    2001: First totally artificial heart was placed in a patient.
    2003: Human Genome Project completed
    2005: Face Transplants
    Vaccines
    2006:HPV
    2015: Malaria
    2016: Ebola