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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early begging
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3900 BCE
Diseases caused
Evil spirts -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Prayer, Blood letting, amputations -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalis- used for heart
Quinine- digestion
Morphine-pain
Belladonna and atropine- digestion -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records- the earliest people to keep health records.
Who are physicians?- the priest acted ad physician
How did they heal?- medicine, bloodletting,leeches -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture- used stone tools to make acupuncture -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illnesses cause nature vs spiritual- observe the illnesses to determine nature vs spiritual
Dissection- did not allow dissections
Hippocrates- the father of medicine -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Sanitation systems- clean water
Organize medical care- the first, sent medical equipment with armies to cure wounded soldiers.
Hospital development- public buildings -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine?
Had no interest on how body functions -
700
How do they treat diseases?
Vaccines and medications -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics- caused millions of death -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
Universities-for research
Dissections- body of study
Books- greater access to knowledge -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo de Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tube of the female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Used his knowledge to understand physics, he could describe the circulation of blood and pumping the heart. -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope, established there is life smaller than the eye can see, found cause of tooth decay. -
Apothecaries
In midieval england, these apothecaries engaged in an flourishing trade in drugs and spices from he east. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discoveries include bifocals and found that colds can be passes from person to person -
Medical students learning
Attended lectures in classroom and laboratory but also observed patients at the bed side