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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused?
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis for heart, quinine digention , belladonna and atropine digeston , morphine pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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1900 BCE
Ancient chinese
First to use primitive acupuncture therapy -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
First to determine that illness are natural
Religion customs did not allow bodies to be dissected
Father of medicine -
100
Ancient Roman’s
Lack of sanitation
Romans were the first to organize medical care
Start of hospital public building for the care of the sick -
299
Ancient Egyptians
Earliest people to keep health records
Priests that acted as physicians
Used medicines to heal diseases -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopped study of medicine? Why?
Believe life and death were in gods hands -
700
How do they treat diseases
Primary treatment was pray -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
Rebirth
The started learning and created medical school
Acceptance dissection of the body for student
Started boooks for research -
1100
Epidemics
Caused millions of deaths -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabrielle fallopuis
Discovered fallopian tubes of the female anatomy -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
Discovered tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Knowledge to understand physiology
able to describe the circulation of the heart -
Antonio von leeuwenhoek
Invented the micro scope, establishing that there is life smaller than the eye can see -
Apothecaries
Enganged in a flourishing trade in drugs and spices from east -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin franklin
Discovered bifocals
Found out colds can be passes to person to person -
Medical students learning
When patient died they dissected the body- led to better understanding of causes of illness and death
Students attended lectures in classroom that was a way to teacher medicine -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element of oxygen -
Edward Jenner
Discovered method for vaccination -
Rene laenec
Invented the stethoscope -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever -
Florence nightingale
Attracted well educated and dedicated women to the nightingale school of nursing
Helped ill women soliders -
Louis Pasteur
Known as father of microbiology
Discovered microorganisms -
Dimitri Ivanoski
Discovered some diseases are caused by microorganisms- cannot be seen with microscope -
Joseph lister
Discovery that mircroorganisms cause infections -
Ernst von Bergman
Developed asepsis -
Robert Koch
Discovered disease causing organisms -
Paul ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine -
Wilhelm roentgen
Discovered x-rays -
Anesthesia
Loss of feeling or sensation -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found peniceillin killed life threatening bacteria -
Sigmund freud
Discovered conscious and un conscious parts of the mind -
Gerard domagk
Discovered sulfonamind compounds -
Jonas Salk
Discovered dead polio virus would cause immunity poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used live polio virus vaccine -
Francis crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure -
Christian Barnard
Performed first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Performing hemisperectomies surgies on teh brain to stop seizures -
Period: to
21 century
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Bionic limbs
Bionic prosthetic part controlled by a persons thoughts -
Robot surgery
help doctors improve both accuracy and precision, especially in cancer case -
Targeted cancer therapies
type of cancer treatment that targets proteins that control how cancer cells grow, divide, and spread -
HPV vaccine
preventing cervical cancer and related diseases -
RSV vaccine
RSV vaccine, is a vaccine that protects against respiratory syncytial virus