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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Used herbs and plants as medicine -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
-Digitalis (heart)
-Quinine (kills parasites in blood stream)
-Belladonna and atropine (cure breathing problems)
-Morphine (pain medicine) -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Egyptians were the earliest people to keep accurate health records
They called upon gods to heal people
The priests acted upon physicians to heal the people -
1900 BCE
Ancient chinese
First to use acupuncture therapies, learned to treat a variety of diseases with stone tools. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
They depended on sacred temples to heal people, they also determined illness was natural rather than spiritual. Dissections weren’t allowed to be performed due to it being against there religion. Hippocrates wrote standard of ethics, which is the basis for medical ethics used today. -
100
Ancient Romans
The Roman’s first discovered medical care and sent equipment and Roman physicians to heal soldiers. Hospitals were first developed through people being hospitalized in others homes, sanitation was used by physicians wearing masks with spices that they believed kept them away form sickness and infection. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
stopped the study of medicine why?
The church believed life and death was in the hands of god and they had no interest in the way the body functioned. -
700
How do they treat disease
They treated diseases with primarily prayer or treated with herbal mixes. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
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1100
epidemics
Millions of people died, biggest plague killed over 60 million people called the Black Death, and multiple other diseases that killed others. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
-universities expanded with more research for diseases and finding medicines
-dissection was finally accepted, people started studying body’s
-books were printed for better knowledge -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered the fallopius tubes of the female body -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Used his knowledge to learn physiology and described the blood circulation and pumping of the heart. -
Antonie von leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope, he established theres life smaller than the eye can see. -
Apothecaries
These were early pharmacies, they flourished trade with trading drugs and spices from the east. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
He discovered bifocals (glasses), and colds can be passed from person to person. https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/benjamin-franklin -
Medical students learning
Students attended lectures in the classroom but also observed patients at bedside. The dissected and observed diseased and discovered why illnesses arosed. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element oxygen, also discovered plants refresh air and makes it useful for respiration. -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccination for smallpox, saved millions from this disease. -
Rene Laennec
Invented the stethoscope, made an ability to hear the hart and decide if diseases were present. -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelewis
Identified the cause of child bed fever, many women died after giving child birth from this. A cause to child bed fever was physicians didn’t wash there hands after going room to room delivering baby's. -
Florence Nightingale
She was a dedicated nurse that made nursing a respectable profession, she put all of her time into taking care and treating patients and she was determined to finding better sanitary ways to construct hospitals better. -
Louis Pasteur
He discovered that tiny microorganisms are everywhere. He also discovered microorganisms cause diseases and heating milk prevented growth of bacteria. -
Dmitri Ivanovski
He discovered some diseases are caused by microorganisms that can’t be seen by a microscope and are called viruses. -
Joseph Lister
Microorganisms cause infection, he used carbolic acid on wounds to kill germs that cause infection.he was the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery which prevented infection in the incision. -
Ernst Von Bergmann
Developed asepsis, figured out germs cause infections in wounds. -
Robert Koch
He discovered disease-causing organisms, developed a method to identify pathogens and isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. His ideas brought about the use of chemicals to fight disease, he also found a treatment that cured syphilis. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-rays, allowed doctors to see the inside of the body and discover what was wrong with the patient. -
Anesthesia
Before anesthesia was discovered physicians used herbs and alcohols to stop pain but many died from pain. Later on they discovered nitrous oxide was used for safe and more comfortable treatment. -
Sir Alexander
Found that penicillin killed life threatening bacteria, one of the most important discoveries of twentieth century. -
Sigmund Freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. Also the mind and body work together, started the basis of psychology -
Gerhard Domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds, these compounds were the first effective in killing bacteria. This changed the practice of medicine by killing deadly diseases. -
Jonus Salk
He discovered a dead polio virus caused people to have immunity to poliomyelitis. The virus killed thousands and attacked active and athletic people. -
Albert Sabin
He used a live polio virus vaccine and is used today to immunize baby’s from the disease. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of DNA, and explained how DNA is replicated and how DNA is passed on. -
Christian Banard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Continues to separate Siamese twins and performs hemispherectomies surgeries in the brain to stop seizures. -
Period: to
21st century
Every year people are finding new approaches to medical care. There are many new ways of wellness and learning of self care being taught to people. Nurses are treating people in their own homes, people are having surgery’s and going home the same day. Health care providers are now using electronic communication for patients to see their medical information online. Patients are now able to have quicker access to their health records. -
5 advancements in medicine
-The ability to reattach body parts
- The ability to transplant organs from a donor to a recipient
- The elimination of disabling diseases through genetic research
- Advancement in caring for the unborn fetus
- the ability to use noninvasive techniques for diagnosis