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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases Caused by?
-Evil Spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatment for the sick
-Perform ceremonies to remove evil spirits -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
-Digitalis treats heart conditions
-Quinine controls fevers, relieves muscles spasms, and prevents malaria
-Belladonna and atropine relieve muscles spasms
-Morphine is to treat severe pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
-The Egyptians were the first to use health records. Priests acted as physicians
-The used medicines, splinted fractures and used leeches for bloodletting. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
-Treated illnesses and diseases with stone tools, their methods developed and are used today -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
-First to discover that the cause of disease may be natural and not spiritual
-Religious custom didn’t allow body’s to be dissected.
-Hippocrates wrote the standard of ethics called to Oath of Hippocrates -
100
Ancient Romans
-Brought clean water through aqueducts
-First to organize medical care
-Romans physicians kept a room in their house for the ill -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Stopped the study of Medicine, why?
-Roman empire was conquered by the Huns -
700
How do they treat diseases?
-Primary treatment was prayer -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
-Many epidemics caused millions of deaths
-Scientists discovered vaccines to control diseases -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
-Building of university’s and medical schools for research
-Acceptance of dissecting
-Development of printing press and publishing books allowed greater access to knowledge from research -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th Centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
-Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body