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Hippocrates: The Father of Medicine
Hippocrates was born in 460BC and died in 370BC. Hippocrates theories in "On the Physician" were his ideas of the proper behaivor for someone in the medical profession. His ideas are still practiced today as the Hippocratic Oath -
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Egyptians: Earliest People Known to Maintain Accurate Health Reacords
The Egyptian time period was 3500-500B.C.E. They were the first kown people to have accurate health records. The picture shown is a diagnosis and treatment of injuries. -
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Emphasis Was Placed on Saving the Soul and Study of Medicine was Prohibited
Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and the Study of Medicine was prohibited during the dark ages. Any medical practices were banned and anyone caught was severely punished or killed (body dissections on criminals began). -
Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400
The Beginning of Public Health and Sanitation Sytems
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Jan 1, 1487
Leonardo Da Vinci Drew the Human Body using Dissection
Leonardo Da Vinci was the first artist who used dissection to draw the human body. -
Circulation of Blood Flow is Described
William Harvey described the ciruclation of blood flow. -
Anton Von Leevavenhoek created the Microscope
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Gabriel Fahrenheit created the first Mercury Thermometer
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Benjamin Franklin created bifocals and found out that people can pass colds to each other
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Vaccine for Smallpox was Developed
Jenner's work represented the first scientific attempt to control an infectious disease by the deliberate use of vaccination. -
Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope
the first ones were made of wood and brass. -
Florence Nightengale: Founder of Modern Nursing
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Louis Pasteur began Pasteurizing Milk to Kill Bacteria
Louis Pasteur began Pasteurizing MIlk to Kill Bacteria. He also began many experiments involving vaccinations and immunizations with Polio. For his first experiment, he took a small ammount of Polio and put it into young child's cut, and his body was able to arm itself to fight against the disease in the future. This was the first vaccination. -
Patterns of Heredity are Established
Gregory Mendel established the patterns of heredity by experimenting on pea plants. -
Joseph Lister began using Disinfectants and Antiseptics during Surgery
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Clara Barton fournded the American Red Cross in 1881
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Robert Koch Develops the Culture Plate Method to Identify Pathogens
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X-Rays are Discovered
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Isolation of Radium
Marie Curie isolated radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris in 1910. -
Chinese used Acupuncture to Relieve Pain and Congestion
Acupuncture was used to help relieve pain and congestion in patients -
World war 1
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Sir Alexander Fleming dicovered penicillin
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world war 2
ended in 1945 -
Pearl Habor
this happened during world war 2 -
Advances in laparoscopic surgery
the big advantage of this new trchniquie is that there i no need to make a lare incision. -
Korean War
ends in july 27, 1953 -
Polio Vaccine is Developed
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Vietnam War
Ended in april 30 1975 -
Microsurgeries
mircosurgeries is surgery on minute body sturcture or cells preformed with the aid of a microscop and other specialized instruments, suchs as micromanipulator. -
Berlin Wall
built in two nights to stop spread from north and south korea -
Assassination Of President Kennedy
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Christina Barnard: Worlds First Heart Transplant
used a donor heart and placed it into a patients hearts that was failing. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
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Louise Brown: First Test Tube Baby (Great Britain)
Brown's parents had been trying to conceive a child for 9 years, and had no luck. Louise Brown still gets followed around today, because people are still expecting something to go wrong with her. -
AIDS Virus was identified
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Cloning: Dolly the Sheep
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9/11
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Obama becoming president
when obama became president it showed that rasicm was not a big deal anymore -
Gene Therapy
The insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, hereditary disease in particular. -
Advanced Body Imaging
Diagnostic and screening medical procedures specifically developed to promot health and wellness.
