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Period: 4000 BCE to
Early Beginnings
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3900 BCE
Diseases Caused By
Evil Spirits -
3600 BCE
Medicines Used Today
Digitalis, Quinine, Belladonna and atropine, Morphine -
Period: 2999 BCE to 399
Ancient Times
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2900 BCE
Ancient Egyptians
Health Records, Physicians and Priests, They used medicine to heal the disease. -
1900 BCE
Ancient Chinese
Still in common use today -
900 BCE
Ancient Greeks
Greeks developed massage and herbal therapy’s, Hippocrates was the father of medicine -
100
Ancient Romans
The Roman’s were the first ones to organize medical care. They sent medical army equipment to help soldiers, physicians kept a room in their house for patients which started the hospital. -
Period: 400 to 800
Dark Age
The church believed life, and death was in gods hands, so they would not treat diseases. -
Period: 800 to 1400
Middle Age
Epidemics caused many to die in the Middle Ages -
Period: 800 to 1400
Renaissance
They built universities and medical schools. Disecgtion of the body was accepted for study. Books were being developed. -
1515
Leonardo da Vinci
Studied and recorded the anatomy of the body -
1550
Gabriele Fallopius
He discovered the fallopian tubes of the woman body -
1563
Bartolommeo Eustachi
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William Harvey
He discovered the circulation of blood -
Antonie von Leeuwenhoek
He had discovered bacteria -
Apothecaries
Manufactured and dispensed medicines -
Period: to
18th century
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Benjamin Franklin
He had invented the lighting rod, bifocals and the Franklin stove. -
Medical students learning
Led to better understanding of the causes of illnesses and death. -
Joseph Priestly
Discovered the element oxygen, also observed plants that refresh air, making it usable for respiration. -
Edward Jenner
Discovered a method of vaccination for smallpox. His discovery also led to immunization and pretentive medicine in public health -
Rene Laennec
Rene Laennec was a French physician and he invented the stethoscope. -
Period: to
19th and 20th Centuries
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Florence Nightingale
She is a British nurse, social reformer and statistician. -
Ignaz Semmelweis
He had discovered that puerperal fever could be cut drastically if doctors washed their hands in chlorine. -
Louis Pasteur
He had discovered that micro organisms cause fermentation and disease -
Dmitri Ivanovski
Dmitri Ivanovski had discovered viruses. -
Joseph Lister
He had found a way to prevent infection in wounds during the surgery and after the surgery. -
Ernst von Bergmann
He introduced steam sterilization of instruments and dressings. -
Robert Koch
He discovered the tuberculosis bacterium. -
Paul Ehrlich
Pioneering work in hematology, immunology and chemotherapy. Also the discovery of the first effective treatment for syphillis. -
Wilhelmina Roentgen
He is the father of diagnostic radiology -
Anesthesia
Insensitivity to pain, or the injection of drugs before surgical operations. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
He had discovered penicillin. -
Sigmund Freud
He invented and developed the technique of psychoanalysis. -
Gerard Dogmagk
Demonstrated in mice experiments that sulfonamides could be used to control bacteria that cause blood poisoning. -
Jonas Salk
Was the first to devise and implement a safe and effective vaccine against polio. -
Albert Sabin
His development of the oral polio vaccine. -
Francis crick and James Watson
Discovery in 1953 of the double helix, the twisted ladder structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). -
Christian Barnard
Led the team that preformed the worlds first human to human heart transplant. -
Ben Carson
Led a group of 70 member surgical team that separated conjoined twins.