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Period: 4000 BCE to
Early beginning
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3900 BCE
Disease caused
Evil spirits -
3600 BCE
Treatments
Prayer, blood letting,exercicum and amputation -
3100 BCE
Medicines used today
Digitalis-for heart
Quinine-digestion
Belladonna and atropine -digestion
Morphine -
2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Kept accurate health records
The priest acted as physicians
Bloodletting
Drain blood -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Treat disease with stone tools -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Greeks was natural not spiritual
Religious custom did not allow bodies to be dissected
Hippocrates based his knowledge of anatomy and physical -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark age
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500
Stopped the study of medicine
Church belivied the life and death were in gods hands. Monks and priests no interest in the body function -
700
How do they treat disease
Primary treatment was prayer
Medications= herbal mixtures
Care was custodial -
1000
Ancient Romans
Brought clean water into their cities by the waterways. Built public baths with filtering
Sent medical equipment and physicians with armies to care for wounded soldiers. Kept a room in their house for the ill.
Roman physician wore a death mask -
1100
Middle age
Caused millions of deaths
Bubonic plague alone killed 60 million people -
Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
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1450
Rebirth
Universities and medical schools for research.search new ideas about diseases
The acceptance of dissection of the body for study
The development of the printing press and publishing for books allow greater access to knowledge from research -
Period: 1501 to
16th and 17th centuries
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1515
Leonardo de Vinci
studied and recorded the anatomy of the body. Vinci’s depiction of the human body -
1550
Gabriele fallopius
Discovered the fallopian tubes of the female anatomy. -
1563
Bartolommeo eustachio
Discovered the tube leading from the ear to the throat -
William Harvey
Able to describe the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart. -
Antoine von Leeuwenhoek
Invented the microscope life is smaller then the eye can see. Found bacteria that causes tooth decay. -
Apothecaries
Engaged in a flourishing trade in drugs and species from the east. -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
Discovered bifocals , he found that colds could be passed from person to person -
Medical students learning
They observed patients on their bedside. When the patient dies they dissect the body. -
Joseph Priestley
Discovered the element of oxygon
He observed the plant refresh of air
Making it usable for respiration -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox. His discovery also led to immunization. -
Rene laennec
Invented the stethoscope was made of wood.
Increased the ability to hear the heart and the lungs. -
Period: to
19th and 20th centuries
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Ignaz Semmelweis
Identified the cause of childbed fever.
Noted that patients of midwives had fewer deaths
He made handwashing and cleanliness become a practice. -
Florence nightingale
She was dedicated to nursing event though no one wanted her to. She gained effective training for nurses. Public establishment a nightingale fund to pay for the training, protection, and living cost of nurses. -
Louis Pasteur
Father of microbiology discovered that tiny microorganisms were everywhere and that they can cause disease. Discovered that heating milk prevented the growth of bacteria. Created vaccine for rabies. -
Dimitri ivanovski
Discovered that some disease are caused by microorganisms that cannot be seen with a microscope -
Joseph lister
He became the first doctor to use antiseptic during surgery that helped prevent infection. -
Ernst von bergmann
Developed asepisis. He developed a method to keep an area germ free before and during surgery -
Robert ehrlich
Discovered many disease causing organisms. He ideintify pathogens. Isolated the bacterium that causes tuberculosis -
Paul ehrlich
Discovered the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. -
Wilhelm roentgen
Discovered X-rays
Took first picture using X-ray of his wife’s hand. -
Anesthesia
There is no anesthesia on patents and used others things like herbs -
Sir Alexander Fleming
Found that penicillin killed life threatning bacteria.
Discover most important discoveries of the twentieth century -
Sigmund freud
Discovered the conscious and unconscious parts of mind.
Studies based on physiology -
Gerhard domagk
Discovered sulfonamide compounds.
In killing bacteria -
Jonas Salk
Discovered that a dead olio virus would cause immunity to poliomyelitis -
Albert Sabin
Used a live polio virus vaccine , which is more effective. -
Francis crick and James Watson
Discovered the molecular structure of Dna. -
Christian Barnard
Performed the first successful heart transplant -
Ben Carson
Seperating siameses twins.
Surgeirs on the brain to stop -
Period: to
21st century
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Self care
Personals emotional ,social, mental, and spiritual rather than just focusing on the physical body. Patients achieve this kind of holistic health. -
Telehealth
Telehealth has been a great advancement to the patients and provided offices where they can just message if there is a problem -
Electural health records
They keep records more in a digital form rather than just on paper -
Artificial organs
These are being made in labs and are make 7 organs rather than hustling and waitin g on someone to give there organs -
Functional MRI
They are now having machines built so they can physically read peoples minds. -
Period: to 399
Ancient times