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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
History
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3900 BCE
Diseases
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, amputation Photo from wikimedia commons -
3100 BCE
Medicine used today
Digitalalis for heart
Quinine digestion
Belledona and atropine digestion
Morphine pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health records- first group to keep records
Who are physicians- priests
How did they heal- medicines, used leeches for bloodletting Photo from PxHere -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Development of acupuncture- started using different tools to heal disease and sickness Photo from wikimedia commons -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Illness caused natural vs. spiritual- preformed healthcare in temples, started to figure out where diseases came from
Dissections- weren’t allowed due to religion
Hippocrates- made standard of oath that is still used today Photo from World History Encyclopedia -
100
Ancient Romans
Sanitation systems- used clean water, used sewers
Organize med care- first to organize it and get things to people who needed it
Hospital development- made houses for anyone with illnesses, developed into hospitals -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark ages
Why did they stop studying medicines?(500ad)- because the Roman Empire was conquered
How were diseases treated?(700ad)- mostly prayer, herb mixtures -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle age
Epidemics- led to finding vaccines for the diseases -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
Universities- schools for research
Dissection- used for study
Books- made books related to healthcare -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied body anatomy -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Discovered female fallopian tubes -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Discovered humans have a tube connecting throat and ear -
William Harvey
Learned physiology, could tell how the heart works -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
-invented microscope
-found out there was life in smaller forms -
Apothecaries
Started pharmacies, sold medicines -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Found that different illnesses were contagious -
Medical students learning
Students learned about illness and death, and how it works. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered oxygen, and how plants recycle it Photo from wikimedia commons -
Edward Jenner
Found vaccinations to prevent smallpox -
Rene Laennec
Invented stethoscope to hear hear and lungs Photo from wikimedia commons -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmeweis
Figured out what was causing childbed fever -
Florence Nightingale
Volunteered in hospitals and helped save people -
Louis Pasteur
Discovered microorganisms, found that they caused illnesses -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Discovered viruses too small to see through a microscope -
Joseph Lister
First to use carbolic acid to kill germs that could lead to infection
First to use and antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection -
Ernst von Bergmann
Made asepsis, made surgery areas germ free to prevent infections -
Robert Koch
Found multiple organisms that held diseases, knew that areas needed to be clean to prevent these organisms -
Paul Ehrlich
Discovered treatments and saw how the diseases reacted to them. Saw that certain treatments only worked on some organisms. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Invented x-rays (1895) Photo from wikimedia -
Anesthesia
Discovered so that when someone was in surgery, they wouldn’t feel it. Photo from picpedia -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin kills killing bacteria, important discovery, saved lives -
Sigmund Freud
Studied the mind, found connection between body+mind, found mental issues could connect with physical -
Gerard Domagk
Discovered medicines for killing bacteria -
Jonas Salk
Found dead polio cured poliomyelitis, saving many -
Albert Sabin
Off of Salks discovery, he used the live virus. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered DNA, and how it replicates Photo from wikimedia commons -
Christian Barnard
First to complete a successful transplant of heart -
Ben Carson
Did brain surgeries, separating Siamese twins Photo from wikimedia commons -
21st century
From PubMed Central
1. We are now able to lab-grow organs
2. Have medicine cures for many different illnesses/diseases
3. We have AI that is able to do many things, helping in the healthcare field
4. Developed a covid-19 vaccine
5. Devices used to track how the body functions with different issues -
Period: to
21st century