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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Early beginnings
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3900 BCE
Disease caused by?
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3600 BCE
Treatments for sick
Doctors treated sickness by, Prayers, blood leading, exersixums, and amputation. -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Medicines used today include:
Digitalis- Heart conditions
Quinine- Digestion
Belladonna and atropine-
Morphine- Pain -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
- Kept health records
- Preist
- Draining of blood and pointed fractures
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1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
The development of acupuncture was using acupuncture and stone tools. -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Ancient Greeks found illness was caused naturally rather and NOT spiritually.
During ancient times for religious reasons they were not allowed to dissect bodies
Hippocrates wrote the standers of ethics -
100
Ancient Romans
The sanitation system they used was when they brought waterways with clean water to bring into there cities. They also built sewer systems to carry off waste. Annother thing they did was build public baths with filtering systems to keep it clean. The way the ancient romans were the first to organize health care was when they sent solders medical equipment and created hospitals. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
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500
Why did the study of medicine stop?
Because the Huns and church believed that life and death was in gods hands therefore The monks and priests did not care how the body functioned. -
700
How do they treat diseases?
Scientists have discovered vaccines to treat and control diseases. -
Period: 800 to
Middle Age
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1100
Epidemics
Epidemics are a disease affecting multiple sometimes thousands of people at once. For example Covid-19. -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth?
During this time span there was a lot of building university’s and schools for doing research. Dissection was a way for students or reaserchers to do reacher by taking bodies apart or “dissecting” them. The making of books or print an publishing them could allow more access for the students to learn. -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Da vinci studies and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
Gabriele discovered the fallopian tubes in the female body. -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachio
Bartolommeo Eustachio Discovered the tube connecting the ear and the throat in the human body. -
William Harvey
William Harvey discovers the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart -
Antoine von leewenhoek
Antoine von leewenhoek Invented the microscope therefore saw life that we cant see with the human eye. People used this to find bacteria on human teeth and found that it caused tooth decay. -
Apothecaries
Apothecaries made a flourishing time in trade in drugs and trades. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin franklin
Benjaman franklin discovered that colds could pass from one person to another or the are contagious. -
Medical students learning
The students learned a better understand of way people die and do research on it to prevent it from happening. Also a wider range of students studies medicine. -
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen and how plants play a part in respiration. -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a vaccine for chicken pox and this led to more vaccines for public health. -
Rene Leannec
Rene discovered the stethoscope. Which gave the ability to hear the heart. This could help the doctors determine if there was a disease present. -
Period: to
19th and 20th century
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Ignaz discovered the “childbed” feaver. This fever caused meany woman to die during birth. -
Florence Nightingale
Florence was the founder of modern nursing. The graduates from the school raised the standers of nursing. -
Louis Pasteur
Known as the “father of microbiology”. He studied microorganisms on the body and found that some cause disease. -
Dimitri lvanovski
Dimitri found that some diseases are caused by microorganisms and can only be seen by a microscope. -
Joseph Lister
He was the first doctor to have an “antisepsis” surgery. -
Ernst von Bergmann
Ernst developed a germ-free system for surgeries so no infection could spread and it would be totally clean. -
Robert Koch
Robert discovered the disease causing organisms and introduced how important it was that we keep the cleanness and sanitation going to stop the spread of disease. -
Paul Ehrlich
Paul discovered the effect on disease causing microorganisms. He then found a treatment to fight bad bacteria. -
Wilhelm Roetgen
Whilhelm discovered x-rays by taking a picture of his wife’s hand. This helped doctors see thought a humans body and see what is wrong. -
Anesthesia
Can’t find any in the book. -
Sir Alexander fleming
Alexander fleming discovered that penicillin is a life threading bacteria and found a cure for it. This helped other researchers find a curfew for blood poisoning, pneumonia, and gonorrhea. -
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud conscious and unconscious parts of the brain. -
Gerhard Domagk
He changed the practice if medicine by killing deadly diseases -
Jonas Salk
Discovered the dead polio virus. -
Albert Sabin
Used a more effective vaccine. -
Francis Crick and James Watson
Discovered the structure of the DNA. -
Christian Bernard
Performed the first successful heart transplant. -
Ben Carson
Lead Neurosurgeon of a group of 70 surgeons that took apart conjoined twins. -
Period: to
21s century
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Smartphone connected pacemaker
The man Earl Bakken such a smart phone to send his pacer transmissions, and now makes it battery operated and wearable. -
Slowing down Alzheimer’s
FDA approved the Alzheimer’s medicine in July 2021. This removes the plaques that build up in the brain with people with our Alzheimer’s. It doesn’t stop the disease but helps tremendously. -
Rsv vaccine
New RSV vaccines were approved to use in the United States -
Pill for post pardom depression
The FDA approved this pill by the brand “Zurzvae” for post pardom depression. This will stop people from getting the life-threatening feelings. -
Gene therapy
In March 2024, the first gene editing/gene therapy idea came out. This procedure straight with people with the disease, he will globin is abnormal, causing red blood cells to block blood flow.