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200
Pagan and Folk Medecine
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300
Temple Healing
Greek civilizations used incantations and chanting to heal their sickly. -
460
Antisepsis
A Greek physician Hippocrates used vinegar and wine to dress wounds, to act to as an antiseptic. -
Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1299
Middle Ages
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Jan 2, 865
Al-Razi
Al-Razi was the first doctor ever who described symptoms and signs of smallpox and measles based on examination. -
Jan 1, 1215
Barber Surgeons
Barber Surgeons were town barbers, and town surgeons. They often practiced blood letting, dental extractions, and amputations. -
Jan 1, 1300
Galen's Work
Galen was a physician in the middle ages. He conducted dissections and vivisections on animals- usually apes- and how the learned a lot on how human body works. This helped in the Renaissance age, because his work was published. -
Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance Hospital's
Renaissance hospitals housed not only the sick, but the poor, blind,insane,orphans, and travelers. -
Jan 1, 1300
Wound Remedies
Doctors usually cauterized wounds by pouring boiling water into them a doctor found that a combination of egg yolk, rose oil, and turpentine worked better. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1401
The Black Plague
During this period cures for the black plague included placing a live hen next to swelling to draw out the pestilence. Also to quicken recovery, the patient was reccomenedto drink glass of their own urine twice a day, to eat theorgans of frogs, shaving a chicken and placing its bottom on the spots caused by the plague,and finally whipping themselves. -
William Harvey
Made the important discovery that the heart had two valves, by watching dogs die. -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Edward Jenner
The first doctor to discover a vaccination for smallpox. -
The Stethescope
The stethoscope was invented by Rene Laennac -
Medical Microbiology
A doctor discovered that microorganisms cause fermentation and diseases. -
X-Rays
X-Rays were discovered by an experiment that put an electrical current through gas at a very low pressure. -
Aspirin
A scientist synthesized heroin and aspirin, to be used as a medicine, -
Period: to
Modern World
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Willhem Eintoven
Willhem was the inventor of the elctrocardiogram. -
Heart Lung Machine
The heart lung machine was created, that was able to temporarily take function of the heart and lungs. -
Hear Pacemaker
The first heart pacemaker was created that controlled abnormal heartbeats. -
Full Body MRI
The first full body MRI machine was created. -
Human Genomes
Doctors discovered genomes and for the first time we could read a complete set of human genetic information and begin to discover what our roughly 23,000 genes do. -
Bloodletting
Barber Surgeons were not only the town's barbers, but also their surgeons. The barbers often used bloodletting, dental extractions, and amputations. -
Renaissance Surgeries
Surgeries became more used in this era, and surgeries were done for tumors, hernias, and cesarean sections- though not all of them were often succesful. -
Heart Bypass
The first bypass heart surgery was performed by a doctor. -
Egyptian Healing
Egyptian doctors often used drugs from minerals and herbs that were drunk with wine or beer, or mixed with dough to created a "pill". Egyptian doctors also used ointments for wounds, and the process of inhaling steam to alleviate pain in the chest.
